In India I can do instant transfer to any other account in the country using my phone and it's executed within minutes if not seconds.. works even on weekends and holidays... And it's almost free
You just have to worry about the government arbitrarily demonitizing some of the most circulated denominations of cash notes because reasons.
30 years ago? I've yet to see a live map of any sort on a commercial flight. That would be all the things they've just described but where exactly does this supposed map live? You've got a seat back, potentially a window, and a screen up front that shows airline commercials and lame movies. Oh and a headphones jack. Once upon a time you also had an ash tray but I only got to use it once as a kid and pesky adults all ready to jump in and parent ruined it.
Many larger/legacy airlines are putting seatback IFE in most of their aircraft, even ones designated for shorter hauls(2-3 hours). Even older aircraft are getting them as airlines go through and update their interiors. Your LCCs/ULCCs might not if you fly those. Adding amenities and services like seatback IFE helps legacy airlines justify the price premium over LCCs without significantly impacting operational costs.
to the 8 people who use windows live tiles. Once that researcher has control of Suzy Pottingblock of West Virginia's Mid 2000s Pentium 4 based computer and her recipe for egg salad (to say nothing of her extensive collection of crotchet stitches) he will dominate the world's pot lucks. And as we all know that's the first step to world conquest. Alexander the Great taught us that much.
Yeah, but have you had that egg salad though? Worth it!
At this point, you cannot even buy a full AAA game outright on launch-day. You are instead offered a framework of minimal features, and are expected to pay again a few more times for 'expansions' and 'DLC', which are just code for 'the rest of the game'. Let's not forget loot-boxes, micro-transactions, GB scale day 1 updates, data harvesting stores, always online requirements, and the death of the second-hand market.
Hence the benefit of PC. Barring the FOMO(god, I hate that acronym) crowd with no self control, just wait a year or 2 for a GOTY edition or the game +DLC to go on sale for a significant discount, and buy it then. The last game I paid full price for on launch (I would have most likely bought Metro Exodus if it weren't for the EPICally chickenshit move they pulled) was RS2: Vietnam (241 hours played on that and 605 hrs on RO2, so worth the investment) since it is a pure multiplayer game. I never buy a single-player game unless it is on discount. This also allows me to get by without always having the latest-greatest components in my PC.
Because people are assigned names, not born with them. Yes, there are definitely intersex individuals but barring those people everyone else is assigned a gender based upon sex.
Human history is full of societies who have recognized additional genders outside of a simple male/female dichotomy. Some such as eunuchs were created (usually at a young age), other from birth.
Most of the statics show these people are not 'happier' after and just as likely to harm themselves.
Maybe because people such as yourself refuse to accept or refer to them as their new and preferred gender? The external stimuli hasn't really changed, so why would you assume the emotional response to that stimuli would? If people started treating trans people as their preferred gender, I bet you those "statics" (sic) would show something much different. It doesn't affect you at all, so if someone who may have been born male prefers to be referred to by female pronouns and expresses/presents themselves as a female, just do it. The world is crappy enough for everyone already, no need to make it even worse for someone.
Police officers have to "identify" themselves as such.
No, they don't. They do when they are arresting you, and they should identify themselves when they are serving a warrant or when entering a building (this helps avoid people being shot). But during an investigation or undercover? No, they don't.
Here's a crazy idea: if you are doing things that would make the police want to spy on you, don't accept random friend requests on Facebook? Better yet, maybe don't do/post about said things on Facebook in the first place? And if one of your friends/acquaintances sends you a friend request, call them up first to make sure they actually sent it.
And of course, we all remember the first rule of the internet; the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.
That's not an SUV, it's a pickup with rear seating.
If someone actually made an electric(or even hybrid) pickup, they could have my money. All of it. Seems like the bed of a pickup would be the perfect place to store a large battery, especially in the US where most pickup owners only do some light hauling at best.
Because it's free money for Apple. The phone is bought the first time, so manufacturing cost is covered, plus a bug premium. Then the phone is turned in for an upgrade, refurbished at minimal cost, and resold for not much less than a new device. Free money.
... If they keep growing they become bloated, get too inefficient, start buying up competitors or getting away from their core business, etc. Then, come a recession, market shift, or a new innovative competitor, they cannot react and start losing money, have to start spinning off or sell off products or divisions, massive layoffs, etc....
Precisely this.
Mobil Oil Corporation, Fairfax, Va., ca. 1985: Mobil had so much fucking money they went into real estate, became self-insured and sold policies, bought Montgomery Ward, Container Corp., which made paperboard products.
Mobil (and other oil companies) made a killing during the oil crunch of 1973 and shareholders screamed to "invest the cash!"
When things got tighter in the mid 80s, Mobil did something that's predictable today:
It went super nova and expelled all of its non-core businesses in an effort to collapse into a well-oiled machine. (Note what I did there.)
So, these days, when I see Apple, for instance, sitting on 240 billion liquidity and buying crazy-ass assets that no one at Apple is qualified to work on, I'm waiting for the explosion.
Didn't know that about Mobil. I was thinking more along the lines of GE, who has screwed up so royally they cut their dividend to 1 cent and whose stock price is down 66% to $10 a share, roughly what it was during the 09 recession.
Chael has also come out and said that the software he worked on only has 68,000 lines of code in it anyway, and that he doesn't know, or care, how any of those lines were his.
Housing is becoming more and more unaffordable. More and more people have no job security (relying on "gig" jobs).
Maybe where you live. The rest of the country is experiencing the best jobs market in half a century and new housing projects all over the place. Move out of your shitty echo chamber of a community and see how great things really are.
My wife and I both have good jobs and live in a nice, affordable house. Any new construction around us now starts at 350k, existing houses (comparable to ours) sell for about 230k+. At 32, I'm lucky to only have about 25k in student loans to pay off. Back in 2015 my town was ranked as the #50 best place to live nationally, so it's not a crappy shithole. If my wife and I were a few years younger, all we'd be able to afford right now is an apartment, probably paying in rent about what we pay in mortgage.
Economics 101, if you aren't growing you are dying. What the problem is these days, and probably has been for a couple of decades or more, is the expected rate of growth. The bullshit from wall street needs to end.
Sales dollars should grow, yes. But as long as they are growing in step with inflation and your own costs (so that your actual net revenue stays at least the same) you are perfectly fine. Massive growth is unsustainable long term. Inflation is currently at about 2%. Even a 4-5% growth rate is healthy at this point for a large, established company-Amazon was still at 19%.
Housing costs are up in some markets due to the return to normal interest rates thanks to the thriving economy and very low unemployment rate.
The problem isn't that so much as they aren't builing entry-level housing anymore. Where I live(where I bought my home 4 years ago for less than $200k) the cheapest a new build is going for now is $350k for a townhome. And I am on the outer edge of a major metro area, a good 30-40 minutes outside the city limits.
History degree holder here (I know, queue the usual Slashdot derision for liberal arts majors-to make it worse I even have a polisci graduate degree!). I'd much rather go back to how we used to do it. No tickets-winner became President, second place became VP. Oh, and everyone in Congress still had to actually work for a living, legislating was just their side gig.
"This guy is so elitist he can't even be bothered to leave his comfy studio and come out here and speak to us in person? I'm sure as hell not voting for him."
Housing is becoming more and more unaffordable. More and more people have no job security (relying on "gig" jobs). The government is a partisan mess and is trying to put people who have no clue what they are doing (or even worse, know exactly what they are doing and why they are doing it) in charge of things that have a direct, negative impact on the country and economy. Healthcare and education is becoming more and more unaffordable, driving higher and higher debt. Fewer people are entering the middle class and at a later age than in previous generations. Plus recessions tend to happen every 5-10 years, so we are coming due anyway.
When people say "Wall Street" they are usually talking vague generalizations that rarely hold up to strong scrutiny. No different here. Wall Street isn't any sort of coherent entity. It's like saying "hipsters" and it doesn't really describe things in a way that is very useful except as a political punching bag. What really is happening is that investors expect a return on their investment for a given amount of risk.
"Investors" don't drive the market anymore. Investors are people who have been forced into relying on 401Ks for retirement since the eradication of pensions and gutting of Social Security surpluses. Most of the stock market is driven by the big investment houses who use computers, algorithms, and physical closeness to the trading floor to make hundreds our thousands of trades in the time it take an ordinary person to make 1 trade, leeching out money while providing no real benefit ("liquidity" is not a benefit if you are actually investing, only if you regularly have a large volume of turnover).
Stock prices in secondary markets are based on expectations of future returns. When the data reveals those expectations were incorrect then the stock price adjusts accordingly. For the most part this happens fairly rationally most of the time, despite all the sturm and drang you hear. If you expect a certain ROI for a given company then there is a price level for that. If the ROI turns out to be less then the price should be less too. It only becomes a problem when the company management starts thinking their job is the stock price instead of the products the company makes.
Correct, but my argument is that those expectations are never based on reality. The underlying assumption of growth is flawed. Just like a living organism, there is a point for every company where growth is no longer healthy for the company. If they keep growing they become bloated, get too inefficient, start buying up competitors or getting away from their core business, etc. Then, come a recession, market shift, or a new innovative competitor, they cannot react and start losing money, have to start spinning off or sell off products or divisions, massive layoffs, etc. If a company instead stabilizes growth once it hits a critical mass it can better weather recessions, still has the flexibilty to pivot with market shifts (if they can correctly identify the shift in time), and can focus on what makes it money and got it there in the first place, all while still generating healthy profits.
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In India I can do instant transfer to any other account in the country using my phone and it's executed within minutes if not seconds.. works even on weekends and holidays... And it's almost free
You just have to worry about the government arbitrarily demonitizing some of the most circulated denominations of cash notes because reasons.
books aren't expensive
Ever been to college?
30 years ago? I've yet to see a live map of any sort on a commercial flight. That would be all the things they've just described but where exactly does this supposed map live? You've got a seat back, potentially a window, and a screen up front that shows airline commercials and lame movies. Oh and a headphones jack. Once upon a time you also had an ash tray but I only got to use it once as a kid and pesky adults all ready to jump in and parent ruined it.
Many larger/legacy airlines are putting seatback IFE in most of their aircraft, even ones designated for shorter hauls(2-3 hours). Even older aircraft are getting them as airlines go through and update their interiors. Your LCCs/ULCCs might not if you fly those. Adding amenities and services like seatback IFE helps legacy airlines justify the price premium over LCCs without significantly impacting operational costs.
I have an idea. Just put a credit card verification in and all those pesky teens that wanted to pay for their porn can't get it anymore.
Who still pays for porn?
to the 8 people who use windows live tiles. Once that researcher has control of Suzy Pottingblock of West Virginia's Mid 2000s Pentium 4 based computer and her recipe for egg salad (to say nothing of her extensive collection of crotchet stitches) he will dominate the world's pot lucks. And as we all know that's the first step to world conquest. Alexander the Great taught us that much.
Yeah, but have you had that egg salad though? Worth it!
At this point, you cannot even buy a full AAA game outright on launch-day. You are instead offered a framework of minimal features, and are expected to pay again a few more times for 'expansions' and 'DLC', which are just code for 'the rest of the game'. Let's not forget loot-boxes, micro-transactions, GB scale day 1 updates, data harvesting stores, always online requirements, and the death of the second-hand market.
Hence the benefit of PC. Barring the FOMO(god, I hate that acronym) crowd with no self control, just wait a year or 2 for a GOTY edition or the game +DLC to go on sale for a significant discount, and buy it then. The last game I paid full price for on launch (I would have most likely bought Metro Exodus if it weren't for the EPICally chickenshit move they pulled) was RS2: Vietnam (241 hours played on that and 605 hrs on RO2, so worth the investment) since it is a pure multiplayer game. I never buy a single-player game unless it is on discount. This also allows me to get by without always having the latest-greatest components in my PC.
There's going to be more...there will always be more...
Just wait until the 2028 Avengers: Cash Grab reboot.
My second favorite sequel, after Spaceballs 2: The Search For More Money
Because people are assigned names, not born with them. Yes, there are definitely intersex individuals but barring those people everyone else is assigned a gender based upon sex.
Human history is full of societies who have recognized additional genders outside of a simple male/female dichotomy. Some such as eunuchs were created (usually at a young age), other from birth.
Most of the statics show these people are not 'happier' after and just as likely to harm themselves.
Maybe because people such as yourself refuse to accept or refer to them as their new and preferred gender? The external stimuli hasn't really changed, so why would you assume the emotional response to that stimuli would? If people started treating trans people as their preferred gender, I bet you those "statics" (sic) would show something much different. It doesn't affect you at all, so if someone who may have been born male prefers to be referred to by female pronouns and expresses/presents themselves as a female, just do it. The world is crappy enough for everyone already, no need to make it even worse for someone.
My pass phrase is 1kb long.
That is a insecure pass phrase. "1Kb L0nG$" would be better.
Dammit! Now I have to change the combination on my luggage!
Now, that doesn't mean some other brand that cares less about its image won't do the same thing. GoDaddy sounds like a good candidate.
A Danika Patrick constellation? That's a lot of cubesats.
Police officers have to "identify" themselves as such.
No, they don't. They do when they are arresting you, and they should identify themselves when they are serving a warrant or when entering a building (this helps avoid people being shot). But during an investigation or undercover? No, they don't.
Here's a crazy idea: if you are doing things that would make the police want to spy on you, don't accept random friend requests on Facebook? Better yet, maybe don't do/post about said things on Facebook in the first place? And if one of your friends/acquaintances sends you a friend request, call them up first to make sure they actually sent it.
And of course, we all remember the first rule of the internet; the men are men, the women are men, and the children are FBI agents.
That's not an SUV, it's a pickup with rear seating.
If someone actually made an electric(or even hybrid) pickup, they could have my money. All of it. Seems like the bed of a pickup would be the perfect place to store a large battery, especially in the US where most pickup owners only do some light hauling at best.
Or, you know, in war sometimes you have to gamble and they dont always work out
Because it's free money for Apple. The phone is bought the first time, so manufacturing cost is covered, plus a bug premium. Then the phone is turned in for an upgrade, refurbished at minimal cost, and resold for not much less than a new device. Free money.
... If they keep growing they become bloated, get too inefficient, start buying up competitors or getting away from their core business, etc. Then, come a recession, market shift, or a new innovative competitor, they cannot react and start losing money, have to start spinning off or sell off products or divisions, massive layoffs, etc. ...
Precisely this.
Mobil Oil Corporation, Fairfax, Va., ca. 1985: Mobil had so much fucking money they went into real estate, became self-insured and sold policies, bought Montgomery Ward, Container Corp., which made paperboard products.
Mobil (and other oil companies) made a killing during the oil crunch of 1973 and shareholders screamed to "invest the cash!"
When things got tighter in the mid 80s, Mobil did something that's predictable today:
It went super nova and expelled all of its non-core businesses in an effort to collapse into a well-oiled machine. (Note what I did there.)
So, these days, when I see Apple, for instance, sitting on 240 billion liquidity and buying crazy-ass assets that no one at Apple is qualified to work on, I'm waiting for the explosion.
Didn't know that about Mobil. I was thinking more along the lines of GE, who has screwed up so royally they cut their dividend to 1 cent and whose stock price is down 66% to $10 a share, roughly what it was during the 09 recession.
Chael has also come out and said that the software he worked on only has 68,000 lines of code in it anyway, and that he doesn't know, or care, how any of those lines were his.
Housing is becoming more and more unaffordable. More and more people have no job security (relying on "gig" jobs).
Maybe where you live. The rest of the country is experiencing the best jobs market in half a century and new housing projects all over the place. Move out of your shitty echo chamber of a community and see how great things really are.
My wife and I both have good jobs and live in a nice, affordable house. Any new construction around us now starts at 350k, existing houses (comparable to ours) sell for about 230k+. At 32, I'm lucky to only have about 25k in student loans to pay off. Back in 2015 my town was ranked as the #50 best place to live nationally, so it's not a crappy shithole. If my wife and I were a few years younger, all we'd be able to afford right now is an apartment, probably paying in rent about what we pay in mortgage.
Economics 101, if you aren't growing you are dying. What the problem is these days, and probably has been for a couple of decades or more, is the expected rate of growth. The bullshit from wall street needs to end.
Sales dollars should grow, yes. But as long as they are growing in step with inflation and your own costs (so that your actual net revenue stays at least the same) you are perfectly fine. Massive growth is unsustainable long term. Inflation is currently at about 2%. Even a 4-5% growth rate is healthy at this point for a large, established company-Amazon was still at 19%.
Housing costs are up in some markets due to the return to normal interest rates thanks to the thriving economy and very low unemployment rate.
The problem isn't that so much as they aren't builing entry-level housing anymore. Where I live(where I bought my home 4 years ago for less than $200k) the cheapest a new build is going for now is $350k for a townhome. And I am on the outer edge of a major metro area, a good 30-40 minutes outside the city limits.
But read up on some of the things that happened during the first 50 years of USA history - how about the Vice President shooting one of his political rivals?
History degree holder here (I know, queue the usual Slashdot derision for liberal arts majors-to make it worse I even have a polisci graduate degree!). I'd much rather go back to how we used to do it. No tickets-winner became President, second place became VP. Oh, and everyone in Congress still had to actually work for a living, legislating was just their side gig.
That would be awesome if he had a headless Agnew carry around his head in jar like in Futurama.
He could pay the UBI in Nixonbucks!
"This guy is so elitist he can't even be bothered to leave his comfy studio and come out here and speak to us in person? I'm sure as hell not voting for him."
There aren't any signs of a recession.
Housing is becoming more and more unaffordable. More and more people have no job security (relying on "gig" jobs). The government is a partisan mess and is trying to put people who have no clue what they are doing (or even worse, know exactly what they are doing and why they are doing it) in charge of things that have a direct, negative impact on the country and economy. Healthcare and education is becoming more and more unaffordable, driving higher and higher debt. Fewer people are entering the middle class and at a later age than in previous generations. Plus recessions tend to happen every 5-10 years, so we are coming due anyway.
When people say "Wall Street" they are usually talking vague generalizations that rarely hold up to strong scrutiny. No different here. Wall Street isn't any sort of coherent entity. It's like saying "hipsters" and it doesn't really describe things in a way that is very useful except as a political punching bag. What really is happening is that investors expect a return on their investment for a given amount of risk.
"Investors" don't drive the market anymore. Investors are people who have been forced into relying on 401Ks for retirement since the eradication of pensions and gutting of Social Security surpluses. Most of the stock market is driven by the big investment houses who use computers, algorithms, and physical closeness to the trading floor to make hundreds our thousands of trades in the time it take an ordinary person to make 1 trade, leeching out money while providing no real benefit ("liquidity" is not a benefit if you are actually investing, only if you regularly have a large volume of turnover).
Stock prices in secondary markets are based on expectations of future returns. When the data reveals those expectations were incorrect then the stock price adjusts accordingly. For the most part this happens fairly rationally most of the time, despite all the sturm and drang you hear. If you expect a certain ROI for a given company then there is a price level for that. If the ROI turns out to be less then the price should be less too. It only becomes a problem when the company management starts thinking their job is the stock price instead of the products the company makes.
Correct, but my argument is that those expectations are never based on reality. The underlying assumption of growth is flawed. Just like a living organism, there is a point for every company where growth is no longer healthy for the company. If they keep growing they become bloated, get too inefficient, start buying up competitors or getting away from their core business, etc. Then, come a recession, market shift, or a new innovative competitor, they cannot react and start losing money, have to start spinning off or sell off products or divisions, massive layoffs, etc. If a company instead stabilizes growth once it hits a critical mass it can better weather recessions, still has the flexibilty to pivot with market shifts (if they can correctly identify the shift in time), and can focus on what makes it money and got it there in the first place, all while still generating healthy profits.