They don't force you to use the automatic payment if it's on. You can still manually pay when you feel like it, and if that's before the last possibly day, you're auto pay won't get through.
I would only consider an electric car if I'd never have to charge it outside of home when I wasn't driving it.
I assume for most people that makes it a terrible only car in the household, but in a two car household, or a very rare road tripper, I'd call not getting gas an almost unbeatable perk.
It's about the same price as its competitors (such as a fully loaded 7 series BMW).
It isn't an investment in saving on gas. It's a "I hate the Gas Station and never drive more than 200 miles a day" car for people in the $80k+ segment. Nobody is saving money on a Tesla, but plenty are getting a car that better meets their needs.
I suspect technology is as close to solving the organ shortage as it is to self driving cars in a meaningful way (both within the average slashdotters lifetime, but not this decade)
Stem cell and cloning research should lead to cloned perfect match organs, handling all non genetic defects, and some organs seem fairly machine replaceable (hearts, and kidney (one more shrink on a dialysis machine should get us to an internal one I'd think).
CTRL-SHIFT-V handles my pasting needs pretty thoroughly, and the Unicode issues are starting to become less relevant.
As for the dashes, I really hate it when a hyphen is used for an em dash, so that's a substitution I can get behind.
Perhaps it's just due to exposure, but strait quotes don't bother me at all.
What always did bother me is when people `quoted' with a back tick when typing, even if the font angles the apostrophe, it still isn't the same as the back quote.
double ``hatred" for double backtick.
I feel a word processor SHOULD make aesthetically pleasing type, The fact that proper ligatures are used when I get a text message, but in word (granted I still use 2007) I get gross "fi" is incredibly frustrating to me, I find it more obnoxious than hyphen, or double hyphen for em dash.
Yes, it can cause issues for text editors, but a WYSIWYG word processor shouldn't necessarily be text editor compatible.
What really doesn't help is that our keyboards don't have angled quotes, so anywhere with user generated content is going to need to use straight quotes (or be smart enough to know when it's minutes seconds, and feet inches to automate.
Pandora isn't really the same thing as spotify pay service, I never personally used slacker, but I do think it was closer to what one got paying for spotify.
I pay for the song recomender, playlist recomender, and instant library updates.
Any recommendations for an app that will keep me with the newest music (of at least anyone I've ever listened to), make playlists with new music on the fly? Recommend to me playlists that are hand made? And let me listen to some random something completely new to me on a recommendation on the fly?
I enjoy my subscription, not because it replaces the tedious act of downloading, extracting, then uploading to a server my music (that's some of it), but because I discover new music I would never have even heard of without it on a regular basis completely on the fly at random times.
Yeah, but I bet the general game costs a lot less, but that's just semantics.
I'll buy it if it doesn't require an internet connection, most of the time I want to play games on my phone is because I'm somewhere I can't fuck about on/.
Except Shadow Stats doesn't make a compelling case for why they're accurate, and flies in the face of observation.
I'm not trying to say Official CPI is the perfect stat, but the 6-9% is so obviously wrong on the face of it.
We can take rent and utilities
Rent approximately 2.3 % (2010-2014 sourced here, using the most recent 4 year total increase then dividing by 4, so slightly high, even using 2005-2008 gets 4.3% on rent).
Utilities are 2% average since 2008 (http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=20372, using electricity as a proxy, not including heating oil which would drop the number.
Median household income is $55,000, or 3,000/month after taxes (55000*.66 divided by 12)
with rent at $934, utilities at maybe $150 (low end) that's over 1/3 of income at 2% over the 2010-2014 time frame.
I see no compelling evidence that the other 2/3 are up 9%/year to get a 6.5% average
I could break out other large expenses and tighten it up even more (for example auto insurance isn't up 30% over 4 years, neither are new or used cars).
So though you linked to a page with math, it's obviously complete and utter bullshit, and it's not just my anecdote that proves this (though the fact that an individual seems completely immune to this extreme inflation is compelling evidence against it).
Why is it you think banks are giving loans under the value of inflation? wouldn't it make more sense for them to invest that money into commodities if inflation is so high (unsecured loans are available under 5% with good enough credit and income).
A 1 Billion dollar box office gross, second highest at the time it came out, top 25 overall, top 20 inflation adjusted, is by any reasonable measure a runaway success.
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If you always pay on time, what's the difference?
They don't force you to use the automatic payment if it's on. You can still manually pay when you feel like it, and if that's before the last possibly day, you're auto pay won't get through.
60s Porsches didn't have a particularly low 0-60
I would only consider an electric car if I'd never have to charge it outside of home when I wasn't driving it.
I assume for most people that makes it a terrible only car in the household, but in a two car household, or a very rare road tripper, I'd call not getting gas an almost unbeatable perk.
Really? Not some metrics of performance? Not in the fact that you don't need to fill the tank?
It's about the same price as its competitors (such as a fully loaded 7 series BMW).
It isn't an investment in saving on gas. It's a "I hate the Gas Station and never drive more than 200 miles a day" car for people in the $80k+ segment. Nobody is saving money on a Tesla, but plenty are getting a car that better meets their needs.
Are you sure? I thought it was the model X
I highly suspect pimps receive their cash from clients, not ATMs
Wouldn't a taxi be better. Being anonymous and all.
I suspect technology is as close to solving the organ shortage as it is to self driving cars in a meaningful way (both within the average slashdotters lifetime, but not this decade)
Stem cell and cloning research should lead to cloned perfect match organs, handling all non genetic defects, and some organs seem fairly machine replaceable (hearts, and kidney (one more shrink on a dialysis machine should get us to an internal one I'd think).
I'd assume the federal law used the federal number of 12
Thay makes the assumption that it's worth (economically) raising/protecting the elephants for their tusks.
It may or may not be, but it's definitely cheaper to just kill wild ones, cheaper enough that there are poachers and not farmers right now.
CTRL-SHIFT-V handles my pasting needs pretty thoroughly, and the Unicode issues are starting to become less relevant.
As for the dashes, I really hate it when a hyphen is used for an em dash, so that's a substitution I can get behind.
Perhaps it's just due to exposure, but strait quotes don't bother me at all.
What always did bother me is when people `quoted' with a back tick when typing, even if the font angles the apostrophe, it still isn't the same as the back quote.
double ``hatred" for double backtick.
I feel a word processor SHOULD make aesthetically pleasing type, The fact that proper ligatures are used when I get a text message, but in word (granted I still use 2007) I get gross "fi" is incredibly frustrating to me, I find it more obnoxious than hyphen, or double hyphen for em dash.
Yes, it can cause issues for text editors, but a WYSIWYG word processor shouldn't necessarily be text editor compatible.
What really doesn't help is that our keyboards don't have angled quotes, so anywhere with user generated content is going to need to use straight quotes (or be smart enough to know when it's minutes seconds, and feet inches to automate.
Pandora isn't really the same thing as spotify pay service, I never personally used slacker, but I do think it was closer to what one got paying for spotify.
I don't pay for the music
I pay for the song recomender, playlist recomender, and instant library updates.
Any recommendations for an app that will keep me with the newest music (of at least anyone I've ever listened to), make playlists with new music on the fly? Recommend to me playlists that are hand made? And let me listen to some random something completely new to me on a recommendation on the fly?
I enjoy my subscription, not because it replaces the tedious act of downloading, extracting, then uploading to a server my music (that's some of it), but because I discover new music I would never have even heard of without it on a regular basis completely on the fly at random times.
Yeah, but I bet the general game costs a lot less, but that's just semantics.
I'll buy it if it doesn't require an internet connection, most of the time I want to play games on my phone is because I'm somewhere I can't fuck about on /.
I read (here I think) an 8% conversion rate.
$50 million is pretty decent return I bet.
Would a game with 50 million in sales be considered a flop? That's 1 million units.
I bet it'd be considered a moderate success in general, and for a low budget game a pretty big win.
People keptnsaying IBM would go away, not for 90 years, but I've been hearing it for 20.
He didn't claim that.
He claimed the price should be worked into the goods delivered.
I think there's a valid point to funding roads with some type of tax based on driving, it's also a large part of how it's done.
Long commutes have external costs that society carries as a whole, a reasonable thing to tax. So to car vacations.
I'm not for private roads, but I'm very much for them being almost totally funded by usage tax.
Do you mean that you be shown Turkey?
And Obama did that deporting more people than any other president ever, yet people say he's sod on immigration.
Even with unlimited distance, you can't see past a big truck for the wave of red lights.
That has nothing to do with tailgating.
Because of reduced visibility, it makes sense to increase the following distance, but you still won't see past the truck, apparently a Tesla can.
Except Shadow Stats doesn't make a compelling case for why they're accurate, and flies in the face of observation.
I'm not trying to say Official CPI is the perfect stat, but the 6-9% is so obviously wrong on the face of it.
We can take rent and utilities
Rent approximately 2.3 % (2010-2014 sourced here, using the most recent 4 year total increase then dividing by 4, so slightly high, even using 2005-2008 gets 4.3% on rent).
Utilities are 2% average since 2008 (http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=20372, using electricity as a proxy, not including heating oil which would drop the number.
Median household income is $55,000, or 3,000/month after taxes (55000*.66 divided by 12)
with rent at $934, utilities at maybe $150 (low end) that's over 1/3 of income at 2% over the 2010-2014 time frame.
I see no compelling evidence that the other 2/3 are up 9%/year to get a 6.5% average
I could break out other large expenses and tighten it up even more (for example auto insurance isn't up 30% over 4 years, neither are new or used cars).
So though you linked to a page with math, it's obviously complete and utter bullshit, and it's not just my anecdote that proves this (though the fact that an individual seems completely immune to this extreme inflation is compelling evidence against it).
Why is it you think banks are giving loans under the value of inflation? wouldn't it make more sense for them to invest that money into commodities if inflation is so high (unsecured loans are available under 5% with good enough credit and income).
Pointing out that making all of the money is success to investors is more of a business major's job than marketing I think.
The two aren't mutually exclusive.
A 1 Billion dollar box office gross, second highest at the time it came out, top 25 overall, top 20 inflation adjusted, is by any reasonable measure a runaway success.