There is a range of phones just like there is a range of cars and yes, you can get into a BMW for $40k, the top end is like $180. There is still room for the top end phone market to climb but the middle of the pack (iPhone se/7/8, cheaper androids like Motorola and such) are good enough for a ton of people.
And if "good enough" is all that you care about, you can get a 6 year old BMW that will still run for 10-20 years for $13k like I just did a few months ago (it was the only way to get my wife to give up her 2001 bmw that she's had so long it is literally falling apart but keeps on running and she is sentimentally attached to it). As Apple starts having only incremental upgrades look for people to start holding onto their old phones longer, especially if right to repair legislation ever becomes widespread.
Very few people are shelling out $1000 straight up for the phone. They all have $20-40 tacked on to their monthly plan payments to pay for the phone. This will also inflate the number of new phone purchases because, once their old phone is almost paid off in 2 years, there's a brand new phone that they can "buy" without paying any more than they already are. Take away payment plans and you won't just see the price of phones drop, you'll see the number of new phones purchased drop as well.
but because they hate the utter hypocrisy, corruption, and inefficiency of the standard political class.
So they voted for the hypocrisy, corruption, and inefficiency of Trump?
Remember his capacity for anything but rational arguments. He can't even admit when he makes things up from whole cloth.
Maybe you would do better to consider how other people see your behavior when you embrace and apologize for Trump.
I had a friend on Facebook post about how great Trump was because he was willing to give up a millionaire lifestyle to be President. Because apparently having people wait on your every need 24/7, having a private plane on standby just for you, spending almost every weekend at your own golf resort, and living in a 200 year old gated mansion isn't a millionaire lifestyle...
Soon the US could be building gas guzzlers nobody outside the US wants to buy..
Soon? Ford has already said from now on they would only build pickups, Mustangs, and 1 EV. And these days even the small pickups are the same size as a full size pickup was 15 years ago.
Your scientist were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
....and...
I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you wanna sell it.
...applies to social media just as much as it does cloning dinosaurs. Silicon Valley is all about "can we do it" and "can we sell it", nothing else.
A number of these genetic testing firms are specifically in the business of tracking ancestry. And their customers are interested in discovering lost relatives and other similar links. They will consent without problems. Because this is the service they are buying. Medical testing: That's a different issue and probably falls under HIPPA rules.
A lot of diseases have a genetic component that is tied with ancestry. Say, for example, you have some Ashkenazi Jew ancestry- that links you to a higher prevalence of certain diseases, for example Tay-Sachs. Some West African heritage- an increased chance of sick cell trait. Insurance is about chance and managing risks: if they know more about your ancestry, they know more about your risks.
Isn't going away? You mean like the Clinton investigations?
These leaked emails are so much more credible than the leaked emails against the Clintons.
People should have been indicted on Benghazi, it was proven that we had assets in the area that could have stepped in and changed the entire outcome. But SOMEONE stopped them and it surely wasn't Trump....
Me thinks you've been living under Obama's rock for too long.
And once we have a Republican in the White House and running the DoJ we can finally get an investigation and Lock Her Up!. Oh....you mean Trump is......and Sessions is a.....hunh....
Do you even read the articles you link to? The Democrats aren't complaining about dead people being removed, they are complaining that it removes people who haven't voted in a couple years. Programs such as this also tend to remove people only based on name/DOB and quite regularly purge people that should not be purged.
If you buy beer/alcohol you do. Funny how wrong Trump is when he is completely correct.
Well, he was in FL when he said that, and I would be willing to bet most of his supporters there have been drinking and smoking for so long that they might actually think you need an ID to go grocery shopping.
Wow, AC's really suck at getting sarcasm. And voter ID is totally suppression of the working class who tend to work hourly jobs (very often hourly jobs) and therefore can't afford the time off that it takes to get ID.
It's comical to anyone who knows anything about intelligence agencies or tech security,
Intelligence agencies or other covert operations quite often will try to use technology or equipment not sourced internally in order to hide who they are really working for and to provide deniability. Anyone who knows anything about intelligence agencies would know this.
And you realize that company scrip, which was only useful in that company town, effectively meant that workers had absolutely no ability or means to leave the company, right? That next town down the road? Owned by a different company so they won't take your scrip. Workers had no freedom of choice, they could only "buy" what the company offered to sell them. If the company even offered exchange services for legal tender it would be at exorbitant rates making that impractical. I don't know why you seem so high on company towns. It's a horrible situation for the worker, almost on the level of slavery as I said above. Makes our current H1-B situation look like a good deal.
Company towns give workers more say? Really? Have you read history? The workers get uppity, company management calls in the Pinkertons to bust some heads, and the workers go back to toiling away. Company towns are horrible for the workers, its effectively slavery.
One size fits none education. My high school had a vo-tech in the 90s. I think there are still some vocational high schools still around.
It's ironic that, for a while, the kids going to the votech classes were considered the "less intelligent" people. These days, with the rise of STEM programs and magnet schools, it's the smart kids that get training in high school on more practical or technical skills such as programming, electronics, etc.
I cover this elsewhere on this thread, but it was cuts to federal subsidies that raised tuition, not loans. Public colleges do _not_ operate in a supply/demand model. They're non profit. And no, the dean's salaries didn't go up that much (football coaches did, but they bring in enough money to pay for it even though none of that goes to players).
Anyone who says loans increase tuition at public non-profit Universities is lying to you to change the narrative and create a straw man to divert attention away from the raiding of the public commons that's been going on for 40+ years.
Loans go up, students can afford to go to a wider range of schools. Schools now have to compete with a wider range of other schools for students. To attract students they upgrade dorms to apartments, build multiple pools, have food courts instead of cafeterias, add or improve sports to entertain students, and hire staff to maintain and run all these extra amenities. To pay for it all, they raise tuition, which students can simply get a bigger loan to cover.
Where are they going to learn those skills? Even intelligent people have trouble discerning legitimate trade schools from all the for-profit "universities" that prey off predatory loans and fudge graduation and placement rates. The US needs to go the European route with 2 tracks-university and technical/trades. This would reduce demand for college and make it cheaper (colleges won't have to up tuition to pay for all the extra perks and facilities to recruit students) and we will have plenty of skilled workers in trades.
Without regulation, competition will inevitably turn into a monopoly, or at best an oligopoly with 2-3 players colluding not to compete, as stronger companies gobble up weaker or smaller ones. Once this happens you have no price pressure nor incentive to innovate or expand services.
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There is a range of phones just like there is a range of cars and yes, you can get into a BMW for $40k, the top end is like $180. There is still room for the top end phone market to climb but the middle of the pack (iPhone se/7/8, cheaper androids like Motorola and such) are good enough for a ton of people.
And if "good enough" is all that you care about, you can get a 6 year old BMW that will still run for 10-20 years for $13k like I just did a few months ago (it was the only way to get my wife to give up her 2001 bmw that she's had so long it is literally falling apart but keeps on running and she is sentimentally attached to it). As Apple starts having only incremental upgrades look for people to start holding onto their old phones longer, especially if right to repair legislation ever becomes widespread.
Very few people are shelling out $1000 straight up for the phone. They all have $20-40 tacked on to their monthly plan payments to pay for the phone. This will also inflate the number of new phone purchases because, once their old phone is almost paid off in 2 years, there's a brand new phone that they can "buy" without paying any more than they already are. Take away payment plans and you won't just see the price of phones drop, you'll see the number of new phones purchased drop as well.
If she's so crooked then why hasn't the DoJ, headed by Sessions who was appointed by Trump, investigated her yet?
We can have more then one enemy. Heck we can have Russia and China as an Enemy while Russia and China are enemies with each other.
We did. Russia and China almost went to war over a border conflict in 1969.
but because they hate the utter hypocrisy, corruption, and inefficiency of the standard political class.
So they voted for the hypocrisy, corruption, and inefficiency of Trump?
Remember his capacity for anything but rational arguments. He can't even admit when he makes things up from whole cloth.
Maybe you would do better to consider how other people see your behavior when you embrace and apologize for Trump.
I had a friend on Facebook post about how great Trump was because he was willing to give up a millionaire lifestyle to be President. Because apparently having people wait on your every need 24/7, having a private plane on standby just for you, spending almost every weekend at your own golf resort, and living in a 200 year old gated mansion isn't a millionaire lifestyle...
Soon the US could be building gas guzzlers nobody outside the US wants to buy..
Soon? Ford has already said from now on they would only build pickups, Mustangs, and 1 EV. And these days even the small pickups are the same size as a full size pickup was 15 years ago.
Along with McDonald's, Amazon, Anheuser-Busch, Starbucks, ...
The appeals have yet to be heard
Not to mention the hilarity of the EU forcing Ireland to collect taxes it doesn't want nor feel entitled to
If Ireland doesn't want the money they could always remit the unwanted taxes to the states where the company actually earned that taxed money.
Your scientist were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.
....and...
I'll tell you the problem with the scientific power that you're using here, it didn't require any discipline to attain it. You read what others had done and you took the next step. You didn't earn the knowledge for yourselves, so you don't take any responsibility for it. You stood on the shoulders of geniuses to accomplish something as fast as you could, and before you even knew what you had, you patented it, and packaged it, and slapped it on a plastic lunchbox, and now you're selling it, you wanna sell it.
...applies to social media just as much as it does cloning dinosaurs. Silicon Valley is all about "can we do it" and "can we sell it", nothing else.
Tax evasion is illegal. Tax avoidance is prudent.
Well, the EU did say that the tax deal Apple had with Ireland was illegal....
Obviously, the subject should have been $1 trillion, not billion.
It's amazing what years of tax evasion can do for a company.
A number of these genetic testing firms are specifically in the business of tracking ancestry. And their customers are interested in discovering lost relatives and other similar links. They will consent without problems. Because this is the service they are buying. Medical testing: That's a different issue and probably falls under HIPPA rules.
A lot of diseases have a genetic component that is tied with ancestry. Say, for example, you have some Ashkenazi Jew ancestry- that links you to a higher prevalence of certain diseases, for example Tay-Sachs. Some West African heritage- an increased chance of sick cell trait. Insurance is about chance and managing risks: if they know more about your ancestry, they know more about your risks.
Isn't going away? You mean like the Clinton investigations?
These leaked emails are so much more credible than the leaked emails against the Clintons.
People should have been indicted on Benghazi, it was proven that we had assets in the area that could have stepped in and changed the entire outcome. But SOMEONE stopped them and it surely wasn't Trump....
Me thinks you've been living under Obama's rock for too long.
And once we have a Republican in the White House and running the DoJ we can finally get an investigation and Lock Her Up!. Oh....you mean Trump is......and Sessions is a.....hunh....
Do you even read the articles you link to? The Democrats aren't complaining about dead people being removed, they are complaining that it removes people who haven't voted in a couple years. Programs such as this also tend to remove people only based on name/DOB and quite regularly purge people that should not be purged.
If you buy beer/alcohol you do. Funny how wrong Trump is when he is completely correct.
Well, he was in FL when he said that, and I would be willing to bet most of his supporters there have been drinking and smoking for so long that they might actually think you need an ID to go grocery shopping.
Wow, AC's really suck at getting sarcasm. And voter ID is totally suppression of the working class who tend to work hourly jobs (very often hourly jobs) and therefore can't afford the time off that it takes to get ID.
How is this a "right-wing" voting issue? Which party has always been against voter ID laws and removing the deceased from voter rolls?
Damn right. If I have to show my ID every time I buy groceries I damn well should have to show ID when I vote.
It's comical to anyone who knows anything about intelligence agencies or tech security,
Intelligence agencies or other covert operations quite often will try to use technology or equipment not sourced internally in order to hide who they are really working for and to provide deniability. Anyone who knows anything about intelligence agencies would know this.
And you realize that company scrip, which was only useful in that company town, effectively meant that workers had absolutely no ability or means to leave the company, right? That next town down the road? Owned by a different company so they won't take your scrip. Workers had no freedom of choice, they could only "buy" what the company offered to sell them. If the company even offered exchange services for legal tender it would be at exorbitant rates making that impractical. I don't know why you seem so high on company towns. It's a horrible situation for the worker, almost on the level of slavery as I said above. Makes our current H1-B situation look like a good deal.
Company towns give workers more say? Really? Have you read history? The workers get uppity, company management calls in the Pinkertons to bust some heads, and the workers go back to toiling away. Company towns are horrible for the workers, its effectively slavery.
One size fits none education. My high school had a vo-tech in the 90s. I think there are still some vocational high schools still around.
It's ironic that, for a while, the kids going to the votech classes were considered the "less intelligent" people. These days, with the rise of STEM programs and magnet schools, it's the smart kids that get training in high school on more practical or technical skills such as programming, electronics, etc.
I cover this elsewhere on this thread, but it was cuts to federal subsidies that raised tuition, not loans. Public colleges do _not_ operate in a supply/demand model. They're non profit. And no, the dean's salaries didn't go up that much (football coaches did, but they bring in enough money to pay for it even though none of that goes to players). Anyone who says loans increase tuition at public non-profit Universities is lying to you to change the narrative and create a straw man to divert attention away from the raiding of the public commons that's been going on for 40+ years.
Loans go up, students can afford to go to a wider range of schools. Schools now have to compete with a wider range of other schools for students. To attract students they upgrade dorms to apartments, build multiple pools, have food courts instead of cafeterias, add or improve sports to entertain students, and hire staff to maintain and run all these extra amenities. To pay for it all, they raise tuition, which students can simply get a bigger loan to cover.
High-Paying Trade Jobs Sit Empty, While High School Grads Line Up For University https://www.npr.org/sections/e...
Where are they going to learn those skills? Even intelligent people have trouble discerning legitimate trade schools from all the for-profit "universities" that prey off predatory loans and fudge graduation and placement rates. The US needs to go the European route with 2 tracks-university and technical/trades. This would reduce demand for college and make it cheaper (colleges won't have to up tuition to pay for all the extra perks and facilities to recruit students) and we will have plenty of skilled workers in trades.
I *was* going, but then there was a space suit problem, so I couldn't. Thanks, Obama.
I thought if I liked my spacesuit I could keep my spacesuit.
Without regulation, competition will inevitably turn into a monopoly, or at best an oligopoly with 2-3 players colluding not to compete, as stronger companies gobble up weaker or smaller ones. Once this happens you have no price pressure nor incentive to innovate or expand services.