If it isn't obvious, we are starting to see signs of a recession coming our way. Amazon is a retailer, and just like any other, they are subject to how well-off people are doing financially. Come crappy times, retail sales are going to suffer.
This isn't to say Amazon will go the way of Sears. AWS will ensure that they are not going anywhere, because businesses always outsource/offshore when a recession hits, even if it costs them more, so more businesses will be doing lift-and-shifts to the cloud in order to save on CapEx costs, even though their monthly burn rate will spike.
Of course, if Amazon really starts hurting, they can always raise rates on AWS services, and with so many companies shackled to the cloud with no way to leave (good luck getting away from Lambda), they will pony up the higher rates, and pray the deal doesn't get altered further.
I would say that Amazon is more recession-proof than most retailers, because they (for the most part) don't have to deal with brick and mortar locations, just warehousing. They've outsourced a lot of their deliveries to suckers, er, "independent small business owners", and a lot of the little stuff can be handled by the Post Office which isn't going anywhere. There's always plenty of cheap Chinese knockoffs that people will buy to save a few bucks, and they become even more attractive during a recession. And, as you say, they have AWS to help keep them afloat.
Of course growth slows. How could it not? They grew fast and they are giant.
What, do they need to take over 150% of ecommerce or something? Nothing can grow forever.
Because Wall Street needs (and assumes) companies to have constant and continuous growth to keep the financial markets afloat. All these valuations assume companies will keep growing at 10, 15, 20% and, if they miss a target by even 1% (oh no, a company only made $990 million profit instead of $1 billion, the horror!) they all scream the company is failing and the stock price tanks. This in turn screws over other people and promotes inefficiencies as companies focus more on meeting Wall Street's expectations, cutting workforces and using other tactics to bump earnings just enough to meet some arbitrary target, focusing on short term "growth" over the long term health of the company.
It is Apple's app store. What the hell do you think it is? What the hell is wrong with Europe? News at 11: Mcdonalds favors its own burgers on its own menu!@#! Holly crap. I'm thinking Burger King does too.
Wrong comparison. McDonald's doesn't bill itself as a burger marketplace where you can also find Wendy's, Burger King, or Krystal. What they are investigating is if Apple is doing the equivalent of a grocery store selling it's own store brand products displayed right up front while offering name brand products "for sale" but shelving them in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard.
As the old saying goes, "you can always hire one half of the poor to kill the other half." Well, now with improvements to AI, soon you won't even need to hire the first half!
Americans travel. 42% of the population owns a passport.
Only because you now need passports to go to Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. In 2006, there were 70 million passports in circulation according to the Sate Department. By 2010 there were over 100 million in circulation. In 2007, the US government required passports when traveling by air to Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. In 2009 they were required for land travel to Mexico/Canada as well. Most Americans haven't even left this continent, much less this hemisphere.
Firstly, you don't know that it could have never worked.
Secondly, it's a straw man; nobody has argued that every 100 feet should be negotiated.
All it takes is 1 NIMBY right next to the brand new treatment plant to say "no" and those miles of sewage lines you dug are useless. What are you going to do, force the guy to sell/take his land? The government can't force him to do anything. Odds are, in your libertarian paradise, the guy probably bought up all that land just for the purpose of screwing it up for the lulz, because people tend to be dicks when they are do whatever they want.
Eh, in college I walked around on a broken foot for 3 days. Broke it during a football scrimmage on Saturday, it didn't get diagnosed as broken until the morning of the following Tuesday. A broken arm is nothing, at least you can avoid using it. And after a visit to the ER for a kidney stone cost me 2k out of pocket (out of a total billing of 10K for less than 3 hours in the ER), I'd rather wait the 3 days to have the broken arm set for free.
I really dont understand opposition to voter id. We have to provide ID to open a bank account, get a drivers license, travel on public transportation, and even load cash on prepaid credit cards in some venues. As long as the ID system is universal and taxpayer funded, I don’t see a problem.
Many places that try to enact Voter ID laws also enact rules at the same time that limit when you can get to IDs, such as reducing the number of locations and having them only open Mon-Fri from 9-3 with Wed only open until 1. Oh, and 1 hour each day where the entire office is closed for lunch. It directly limits the ability of the working poor or elderly/disabled to access IDs, either because they can't physically get to the offices, or because they cannot afford to do so because they are paid hourly and have no time off. If a locality wants to implement Voter ID they should be allowed to, with a caveat that the government MUST provide, free of charge, an ID to all residents. That means going door to door if they have to, every house and every apartment.
A revolver has a feed mechanism that rotates or "revolves" as it fires.
Does this make the 30mm GAU-8 Avenger a "revolver" because it too rotates as it fires?
The GAU-8 is more correctly referred to as a "rotary autocannon". They do in fact have "revolver"-type cannon as well. The difference is, in the GAU-8 and other Gatling-type cannon, have multiple rotating barrels. In a "revolver cannon" there is only 1 barrel with multiple cylinders that rotate, just as a revolver would. Yay pedantry!
Slow news? How about this -- it sucks to get laid off, but what's your opinion on the best month to be laid off in, in the US, from an office job?
September. The weather is still nice but not too hot, and you can enjoy it since you aren't working. Plus September is still baseball season and you have college football.
They should have either put some lasagna on another beach or set up a couple Nermal statues on the beach. Between the 2 that should keep Garfield well away fro the beach.
Then why do Apple smartphone users need to replace their phones much less frequently?
The 5s was launched In September of 2013 and still receives updates.
Are there any five and a half year old android phones that still receive manufacturer updates? Are there any that continue to get updates after even 2?
The 5s might still receive updates, but how many current 5s owners are the original owners of that device? Apple takes in so many trade-ins to sell as refurbs or other markets that it is in their best interest to keep them up to date. If you can sell the same device 2 or 3 times with production cost covered at the original sale and at only marginal cost after that, you're into almost pure profit.
Hell, Apple isn't even in the business of repair work. Go ahead. Try and convince them to give you a reasonable price to repair your broken hardware. You'll be staring at a quote that's 90% the cost of new hardware.
That....kind of proves his point. Apple doesn't want you repairing devices. If you have a 2-3 year old device and the repair cost is 80-90% of the price of a new one, most people are just going to bite the bullet and buy a new one. This is especially beneficial for iPhones where most people turn in their old device for a new one and Apple can refurbish the old device (very cheaply given how low the cost of the components really are) and resell it as a refurb or internationally for additional profit.
Theres the problem. Here in the US, ever since the Iraq War when gas shot up to double what it is currently is, every station makes you pay before you pump. Too many people were stealing gas.
Now this very practical bit of needed legislation will become politicized. Republicans will oppose it as a knee jerk reaction and Trump will create an agency or executive order banning all aftermarket repairs.
They can't though. The only 2 things more American than farmers are coal miners and the NRA. Farmers have already been hurt by the trade war Trump started with China, and steps he took to try and make it up have so far fallen short. And really, it's a good tactic. If she can get the Republicans to go with it (because they don't want to be seen as going against farmers) and get it into law, then it is a foothold for RtR to spread to other areas as well.
Nope, you just have no idea what the law is, being a moron generally.
A lot of locations have laws against short term rentals (ie, hotels) in residential zones or properties. Many also have hotel taxes that AirBnB properties avoid paying even they are operating as hotels, and generally aren't up to code for fire/safety conditions the law specifies for hotels.
AirBnB isn't for renting out your home, it's for renting out your other properties and eschewing all regulation regarding hotels, tenant's rights, short term rentals, etc.
A guy I work with rents out an inlaw suite that is attached to his house. I've seen AirBnBs where people are renting out basements while occupying the upper floors of a house.
a Sling TV-like service....The veteran file-sharing company is positioning BitTorrent Live as a social media app akin to Snapchat and Bytedance's TikTok.....A company spokesperson confirmed that the TV element won't be part of the new BitTorrent Live.
How is it a revival if it is nothing like the original? This is like someone buying the rights to the "Oldsmobile" trademarks and calling it a revival when all they sell are socks, not cars.
No, but Christianity has the dangerous narrative built in that you can basically crap on the world because it's YOURS and when you're done with it, the end of the world is coming anyway and you go to a blissful place.
Basically it's suicide terrorism on a global scale.
See, that doesn't make sense to me. If, as the Bible says, God both created the Earth and made man in his own image to be the stewards of his creation, then by letting the world basically go to hell we aren't being very good stewards are we? We've basically failed in our reason for existence. If God tossed Adam and Eve of Eden for simply eating an apple, imagine what he would have done if they had burned the whole place down. And, since the only heaven or hell we can absolutely 100% prove exists is right here on Earth, only seems to make sense to try and make it heaven, not hell.
I have 1. With a $2k limit. We use it only for emergencies, international travel, and when we bought my wife's car last year (forgot about transaction limits on our debits). I can't even fathom having multiple ones.
Maybe if you could, you wouldn't be stuck with a shitty $2K limit.
Jezuz...I'm not leaving the country with a lousy $2K limit credit card.
I could get plenty more. I chose only $2k. Why would you need a higher limit outside the country anyway? There's internet just about everywhere these days, easy to log in and pay off the card that day if you really feel a need to spend $2k in one day.
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If it isn't obvious, we are starting to see signs of a recession coming our way. Amazon is a retailer, and just like any other, they are subject to how well-off people are doing financially. Come crappy times, retail sales are going to suffer.
This isn't to say Amazon will go the way of Sears. AWS will ensure that they are not going anywhere, because businesses always outsource/offshore when a recession hits, even if it costs them more, so more businesses will be doing lift-and-shifts to the cloud in order to save on CapEx costs, even though their monthly burn rate will spike.
Of course, if Amazon really starts hurting, they can always raise rates on AWS services, and with so many companies shackled to the cloud with no way to leave (good luck getting away from Lambda), they will pony up the higher rates, and pray the deal doesn't get altered further.
I would say that Amazon is more recession-proof than most retailers, because they (for the most part) don't have to deal with brick and mortar locations, just warehousing. They've outsourced a lot of their deliveries to suckers, er, "independent small business owners", and a lot of the little stuff can be handled by the Post Office which isn't going anywhere. There's always plenty of cheap Chinese knockoffs that people will buy to save a few bucks, and they become even more attractive during a recession. And, as you say, they have AWS to help keep them afloat.
Of course growth slows. How could it not? They grew fast and they are giant.
What, do they need to take over 150% of ecommerce or something? Nothing can grow forever.
Because Wall Street needs (and assumes) companies to have constant and continuous growth to keep the financial markets afloat. All these valuations assume companies will keep growing at 10, 15, 20% and, if they miss a target by even 1% (oh no, a company only made $990 million profit instead of $1 billion, the horror!) they all scream the company is failing and the stock price tanks. This in turn screws over other people and promotes inefficiencies as companies focus more on meeting Wall Street's expectations, cutting workforces and using other tactics to bump earnings just enough to meet some arbitrary target, focusing on short term "growth" over the long term health of the company.
Black holes sound like a Coldplay song? Sounds about right.
It is Apple's app store. What the hell do you think it is? What the hell is wrong with Europe? News at 11: Mcdonalds favors its own burgers on its own menu!@#! Holly crap. I'm thinking Burger King does too.
Wrong comparison. McDonald's doesn't bill itself as a burger marketplace where you can also find Wendy's, Burger King, or Krystal. What they are investigating is if Apple is doing the equivalent of a grocery store selling it's own store brand products displayed right up front while offering name brand products "for sale" but shelving them in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard.
Is it the one in the orginal Attic Greek, or Latin, or the KJV, or NKJV. Do you include the Apocrypha?
"If Voting Made a Difference, They Wouldn't Let Us Do It" - Mark Twain (?)
"If I really said all those things people claim I did, I'd be famous." - Mark Twain
They'll only need a few million bodyguards.
As the old saying goes, "you can always hire one half of the poor to kill the other half." Well, now with improvements to AI, soon you won't even need to hire the first half!
Americans travel. 42% of the population owns a passport.
Only because you now need passports to go to Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. In 2006, there were 70 million passports in circulation according to the Sate Department. By 2010 there were over 100 million in circulation. In 2007, the US government required passports when traveling by air to Canada, Mexico, and the Caribbean. In 2009 they were required for land travel to Mexico/Canada as well. Most Americans haven't even left this continent, much less this hemisphere.
Firstly, you don't know that it could have never worked.
Secondly, it's a straw man; nobody has argued that every 100 feet should be negotiated.
All it takes is 1 NIMBY right next to the brand new treatment plant to say "no" and those miles of sewage lines you dug are useless. What are you going to do, force the guy to sell/take his land? The government can't force him to do anything. Odds are, in your libertarian paradise, the guy probably bought up all that land just for the purpose of screwing it up for the lulz, because people tend to be dicks when they are do whatever they want.
Thankfully in the US if you need care, you can get it - guaranteed. Broken arm? Go to the emergency room and get it set. Canada? Get sent home for the weekend to come back in on Monday during normal office hours.
Eh, in college I walked around on a broken foot for 3 days. Broke it during a football scrimmage on Saturday, it didn't get diagnosed as broken until the morning of the following Tuesday. A broken arm is nothing, at least you can avoid using it. And after a visit to the ER for a kidney stone cost me 2k out of pocket (out of a total billing of 10K for less than 3 hours in the ER), I'd rather wait the 3 days to have the broken arm set for free.
I really dont understand opposition to voter id. We have to provide ID to open a bank account, get a drivers license, travel on public transportation, and even load cash on prepaid credit cards in some venues. As long as the ID system is universal and taxpayer funded, I don’t see a problem.
Many places that try to enact Voter ID laws also enact rules at the same time that limit when you can get to IDs, such as reducing the number of locations and having them only open Mon-Fri from 9-3 with Wed only open until 1. Oh, and 1 hour each day where the entire office is closed for lunch. It directly limits the ability of the working poor or elderly/disabled to access IDs, either because they can't physically get to the offices, or because they cannot afford to do so because they are paid hourly and have no time off. If a locality wants to implement Voter ID they should be allowed to, with a caveat that the government MUST provide, free of charge, an ID to all residents. That means going door to door if they have to, every house and every apartment.
Headline: Noun verb verb verb adj noun noun noun. Dude... that's not how sentences work.
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A revolver has a feed mechanism that rotates or "revolves" as it fires.
Does this make the 30mm GAU-8 Avenger a "revolver" because it too rotates as it fires?
The GAU-8 is more correctly referred to as a "rotary autocannon". They do in fact have "revolver"-type cannon as well. The difference is, in the GAU-8 and other Gatling-type cannon, have multiple rotating barrels. In a "revolver cannon" there is only 1 barrel with multiple cylinders that rotate, just as a revolver would. Yay pedantry!
Slow news? How about this -- it sucks to get laid off, but what's your opinion on the best month to be laid off in, in the US, from an office job?
September. The weather is still nice but not too hot, and you can enjoy it since you aren't working. Plus September is still baseball season and you have college football.
They should have either put some lasagna on another beach or set up a couple Nermal statues on the beach. Between the 2 that should keep Garfield well away fro the beach.
Then why do Apple smartphone users need to replace their phones much less frequently?
The 5s was launched In September of 2013 and still receives updates.
Are there any five and a half year old android phones that still receive manufacturer updates? Are there any that continue to get updates after even 2?
The 5s might still receive updates, but how many current 5s owners are the original owners of that device? Apple takes in so many trade-ins to sell as refurbs or other markets that it is in their best interest to keep them up to date. If you can sell the same device 2 or 3 times with production cost covered at the original sale and at only marginal cost after that, you're into almost pure profit.
Hell, Apple isn't even in the business of repair work. Go ahead. Try and convince them to give you a reasonable price to repair your broken hardware. You'll be staring at a quote that's 90% the cost of new hardware.
That....kind of proves his point. Apple doesn't want you repairing devices. If you have a 2-3 year old device and the repair cost is 80-90% of the price of a new one, most people are just going to bite the bullet and buy a new one. This is especially beneficial for iPhones where most people turn in their old device for a new one and Apple can refurbish the old device (very cheaply given how low the cost of the components really are) and resell it as a refurb or internationally for additional profit.
Theres the problem. Here in the US, ever since the Iraq War when gas shot up to double what it is currently is, every station makes you pay before you pump. Too many people were stealing gas.
Darn it!
Now this very practical bit of needed legislation will become politicized. Republicans will oppose it as a knee jerk reaction and Trump will create an agency or executive order banning all aftermarket repairs.
They can't though. The only 2 things more American than farmers are coal miners and the NRA. Farmers have already been hurt by the trade war Trump started with China, and steps he took to try and make it up have so far fallen short. And really, it's a good tactic. If she can get the Republicans to go with it (because they don't want to be seen as going against farmers) and get it into law, then it is a foothold for RtR to spread to other areas as well.
Nope, you just have no idea what the law is, being a moron generally.
A lot of locations have laws against short term rentals (ie, hotels) in residential zones or properties. Many also have hotel taxes that AirBnB properties avoid paying even they are operating as hotels, and generally aren't up to code for fire/safety conditions the law specifies for hotels.
AirBnB isn't for renting out your home, it's for renting out your other properties and eschewing all regulation regarding hotels, tenant's rights, short term rentals, etc.
A guy I work with rents out an inlaw suite that is attached to his house. I've seen AirBnBs where people are renting out basements while occupying the upper floors of a house.
a Sling TV-like service....The veteran file-sharing company is positioning BitTorrent Live as a social media app akin to Snapchat and Bytedance's TikTok .....A company spokesperson confirmed that the TV element won't be part of the new BitTorrent Live.
How is it a revival if it is nothing like the original? This is like someone buying the rights to the "Oldsmobile" trademarks and calling it a revival when all they sell are socks, not cars.
So basically your beliefs are:
Glaciar shrink speeds up? Climate change is a lie.
Glaciar shrink slows down? Climate change is a lie.
Agreed, these climate skeptics don't even know how to spell glacier.
Well duh. Anyone who has ever watched Bear Grylls know it's spelled glassear.
No, but Christianity has the dangerous narrative built in that you can basically crap on the world because it's YOURS and when you're done with it, the end of the world is coming anyway and you go to a blissful place.
Basically it's suicide terrorism on a global scale.
See, that doesn't make sense to me. If, as the Bible says, God both created the Earth and made man in his own image to be the stewards of his creation, then by letting the world basically go to hell we aren't being very good stewards are we? We've basically failed in our reason for existence. If God tossed Adam and Eve of Eden for simply eating an apple, imagine what he would have done if they had burned the whole place down. And, since the only heaven or hell we can absolutely 100% prove exists is right here on Earth, only seems to make sense to try and make it heaven, not hell.
I have 1. With a $2k limit. We use it only for emergencies, international travel, and when we bought my wife's car last year (forgot about transaction limits on our debits). I can't even fathom having multiple ones.
Maybe if you could, you wouldn't be stuck with a shitty $2K limit.
Jezuz...I'm not leaving the country with a lousy $2K limit credit card.
I could get plenty more. I chose only $2k. Why would you need a higher limit outside the country anyway? There's internet just about everywhere these days, easy to log in and pay off the card that day if you really feel a need to spend $2k in one day.