I had hoped that the rise of the internet would lead to the death of sales tax, the most regressive form of taxation, and force a shift to income and property taxes instead. Sadly it has not played out that way, and governments have moved to protect their sales tax revenue rather than shift to fairer forms of taxation.
Income, sales, and property taxes are the three major basic forms of taxation; nearly everything else is a special case of one of them. (A tariff, for example, is a sales tax that is only levied on imported goods.) Sometimes the names disguise the true nature of the tax. (Massachusetts has what the state calls an excise tax on car ownership, but it's based on the value of the car so it's really a property tax. A true excise tax is a tax that is levied at the time of manufacture rather than the time of sale, and usually has the same net effect as a sales tax.) There are less common taxes like residency tax and poll tax that rarely constitute a significant part of government income; those usually have non-financial goals as their primary motive. (Poll tax, for example, is about keeping the poor from voting.) Governments can also raise money with fees for using government services and fines for minor violations, which can effectively be another form of tax if most people pay them.
It's easier to just plan to use a switch for the outlying locations that need more connections. Switches are cheap and readily available. And unless your foresight is perfect and you know exactly WHERE in the room you're going to put that entertainment center, you'll end up using a switch anyway. (Do you really want a bunch of whips going to those jacks that are ten feet away? You get a much neater installation by running one whip to a switch and using short cables within the gear rack.)
If you're retrofitting an older house rather than building new, the case for not pulling too many cables is even stronger. Fishing cables through the wall is challenging, and the size of the cable bundle you pull matters. Getting eight Cat6 cables to a location is harder than getting two there.
If I were going to put eight network jacks in a room, I would instead put a pair on each wall. The idea is to make sure that you can easily get Ethernet to the place where you want it. It's the same reason that you put electrical outlets on each wall; so you don't have to run extension cords across the room.
They chose to use the SAMD21 as the main processor for Arduino compatibility - it's the same processor that is used in the Arduino M0. But it doesn't support CAN, so they put in a cheap STM processor to act as a dedicated CAN controller. It's rather like how the Arduino Uno uses a second ATMega chip as a USB controller - because it's cheaper than the FTDI chip that they used in previous Arduino products.
That is exactly what Intel did for a number of years. Does anybody else think it's suspicious that 2017 is the first time in many years that Intel brought us a significant increase in the performance of desktop and laptop processor by increasing their core counts? (Desktop and H-series laptops went from four cores to six; U-series laptops went from two cores to four.) Has Intel actually been able to do this for a while, but held back until Ryzen forced their hand?
It doesn't make sense for the user, though. Why have two accounts that do the same thing? Doing business with both PayPal and Venmo means two accounts, two passwords to remember, two sets of financial records...
AMD didn't launch a new GPU this year because they didn't have enough to offer to make it worth the effort. They could have done a 12nm die shrink of Vega, much as they did for Ryzen, but it wouldn't have gotten them to a fully competitive position against NVidia's current chips, let alone the GTX 1100 series when it appears. They have that machine learning Vega thing on 7nm, but the yield at their fab partner isn't yet high enough to go into mass production with that process. So it makes sense for AMD to wait until 2019, when both Navi and the 7nm process will be ready for prime time.
Console partners like Sony and Microsoft are a significant part of AMD's plans, and it was console sales that kept the company afloat during the dark days between the failure of Bulldozer and the success of Ryzen. But AMD has given up on the computer market just yet, and Ryzen 2 and Navi could put them in a very good place in 2019. That year will be the first time in MANY years, if ever, that AMD will be competing with Intel without having to overcome a disadvantage in process technology, and they'll be on a level playing field with NVidia as it appears that both Navi and future NVidia GPUs will be on 7nm from TSMC.
Not having any updates for over a year also means that Apple has missed out on the most interesting year of CPU upgrades in a long time. On the Intel side, we got the first mainstream six core CPUs for desktops, the first six core H-series (power laptop) processors, and the first quad core U-series (mainstream laptop) processors. These all meant performance improvements of 30 to 40%, a much bigger jump than we have seen for a while. (Nothing new in the Y series yet; that's probably waiting for the 10nm Cannon Lake.) And AMD debuted Ryzen and Mobile Ryzen, offering a viable alternative to many of Intel's processors.
So over on the Windows side, we have a bunch of new systems that are quite a bit faster at multi-threaded workloads than the ones you could get a year ago. But Mac users are totally missing out. (The iMac Pro uses a Xeon workstation and server processor, and that line did not get the same dramatic performance jump that the consumer processors did; higher core counts have been available there for a while.)
There is only one way that the German auto industry will ever get a break from diesel scandals, and that is to stop making them. VW at least appears to be on the path to doing just that; the company is aggressively pushing forward with EV development and sales.
Not any time soon, because bandwidth demands keep going up. People's connections are catching up with 4K now, but 8K is already on the way and that means another factor of four increase in bandwidth. After that I'm sure we'll see 12K or 16K There may not be much point to those resolutions for normal movie watching, but they will be important for VR and for applications like video walls where people might walk up to the display to see more detail of a small part of a scene.
One problem with phones with USB-C charging jacks and no headphone jack is that you can't connect a charger and headphones at the same time. There are adapters that are supposed to let you do that, but they don't work on all phones.
Things get even worse than this article mentions when you look at laptops with USB-C ports. (I'm sure much of this would also apply to desktop systems with USB-C; they do exist now but I haven't yet encountered one.) Some ports let you charge the laptop. Some are also Thunderbolt 3 ports and will support accessories like external monitors and GPUs. Some support charging a connected device while the laptop is in sleep or hibernate. But they all look the same so it's difficult to know what capabilities a USB-C port has. If the laptop has more than one USB-C port they aren't always identical; each port may have a different mix of capabilities.
Unless you are buying far enough in advance to have a ticket mailed to you, the phone is not a solution. The internet solves the problem because you can print the ticket at home, or if you have a smartphone you can get an e-ticket that you display on the phone.
Having some way to buy tickets from an agent is important - not only for people with no internet access, but also for the unbanked population. But there is no reason to require that Amtrak employ those agents. In some states, an agency agreement for somebody else to sell the tickets might be a suitable solution, rather than requiring an Amtrak employee who will be idle most of the time. (Some Amtrak locations are served by only two trains per day, one in each direction.) The agent could be a local transit agency, a bus company that also serves the station, or a store located near the train station.
In other words, require that the problem (people can't buy tickets) be solved. Don't require a specific solution (Amtrak employees). Requiring the employees is pork barrel politics.
If they hadn't wasted a bunch of money by firing the original directors and essentially making the movie twice, it would have been a $150 million movie instead of a $250 million dollar movie. At that cost level it would have merely been a break-even disappointment rather than a big money loser.
Monster Cable's original product actually made sense. But that was a long time ago, and the company has gone down a bunch of rabbit holes since then.
Back in the day, people mostly connected speakers with zip cord (the thin flexible wire that is used for lamps and other small electrical devices) or something similar, and it was usually 18 gauge wire so it would be small and flexible. That worked fine with tube amplifiers, which were high voltage and low current devices and usually operated with speakers designed for relatively high impedance levels like 16 ohms.
But then solid state amplifiers came along. Suddenly it was possible and not prohibitively expensive to make amps that produced hundreds of watts of audio. Transistors are also low voltage and high current devices by nature (even more so back then) and the designs were usually done without audio transformers, both to reduce costs and to eliminate signal degradation from the transformers. At the same time, speakers were being designed to operate at lower impedances, meaning less voltage and more current.
What did that mean for speaker cables? That the resistance loss in the cable was no longer negligible; it meant lost power. And because the impedance of most speakers is not a constant (it's higher at some frequencies and lower at others) the resistance loss was not constant with frequency, meaning that the resistance of the cable would alter the sound of the speaker. Along came Monster Cable with a much heavier gauge speaker cable to address the issue. (If memory serves their original product was 12 gauge.) They also made it with many small strands: not to minimize skin effect as later advertising for fancy cables claimed (that's an issue at RF but negligible at audio frequencies), but simply to let them make a larger cable that was still flexible and easy to connect. Because it used more copper and more strands, that Monster Cable was more expensive to make than zip cord, but by modern cable standards it was inexpensive.
The fly in the ointment is that there was nothing particularly novel or patentable there. Once Monster Cable caught on, other manufacturers started to make thick flexible speaker cable. So the company had to make increasingly esoteric designs and make grandiose claims about them to retain its market.
Similarly, their original low-level cables made sense. Their Interlink cables focused on two things: better build quality (the cheap available cables mostly weren't very well made and were easy to damage) and improved shielding. The latter helps to keep electrical noise out of the components that are being connected and thus improves sound. Again those things were easy to copy, so they moved into more and more elaborate designs, with fanciful descriptions to justify them.
Monster Cable is the best known of the high end cable companies and is often used as a symbol for the excesses of that type of product, but they are far from the worst offender in the snake oil business. And they still make more ordinary (and reasonably priced) cables for the car audio and professional home installer businesses.
It's not really about a tenth of a speaker, but about an audio channel with a tenth of the bandwidth because it is restricted to low frequencies. Because of that frequency restriction, the.1 channel can be handled at a lower sample rate, or with fewer bits in a perceptual encoding system, without an audible change. That bass speaker is likely to be LARGER than the other ones because it needs to be to reproduce those low frequencies.
Human hearing isn't very good at figuring out the location of low frequency sounds (below 80 Hz or thereabouts), so using a smaller number of speakers to reproduce them is a good engineering tradeoff. It allows the use of smaller speakers for the non-bass channels, making it easier to place them in a room; the smaller speakers are also less expensive, making it possible for the buyer to purchase more of them at a given price.
Similarly, a 7.2 system has seven full range speakers and two bass-only speakers; that allows side-to-side directional cues for low frequencies and full two dimensional spacial placement (it doesn't normally involve height speakers) of higher frequency ones. Sound systems with even more channels now exist that allow three dimensional placement of sound, again usually with a limited number of bass speakers.
The performing name of Cantinflas was originally a nonsense name that he adopted to keep his family from knowing that he was performing. The verb is derived from his name.
It doesn't matter. Facebook will figure out your age, gender, and interests in other ways: who your friends are, what you are interested in, which ads you click on, what other sites you visit.
Apple's App Store originally had severe restrictions on the ability of apps to generate and execute code, essentially making it impossible to write an app for native software development. (The notable exception would be an app that created Javascript code that runs in Safari.) They have been loosened somewhat since then, but iOS is still a rather restrictive environment for that purpose. There is, of course, no restriction on the ability to use it as a web device to write code that runs on OTHER computers.
Android has never had any restrictions on apps that create and execute code. Even if the Play Store were to introduce them, you could sideload development apps on most devices.
The small size of the screen on a phone and the lack of a real keyboard are much more severe problems, and they are inherent to the form factor. I don't expect to ever see a lot of software developers writing code on their phones. Larger tablets are another matter; those could be used effectively for coding.
Sadly for those of us in North America, all the Blackview phones are nearly useless here. They don't support the LTE bands used here. They're worth a look if you live in Europe or Asia and you don't travel frequently to the US or Canada.
The reason that The Safety Dance was on heavy rotation on MuchMusic was probably the Canadian Content (CanCon) laws. Broadcasters in Canada, including cable channels, are required to broadcast a certain percentage of programming that was made in Canada and/or features Canadian performers.
Music has the clearest definition of Canadian content. It is scored on four things: Music (written by a Canadian), Artist (performed by Canadians), Performance (recorded or performed live in Canada), and Lyrics (written by a Canadian). To count as CanCon at least two of those four things must be true. The Safety Dance passes with flying colors, scoring all four points. The music video, however, was filmed in England.
It's more likely that the braking issue was a bug that was introduced by an attempt to fix some other problem. For example, Tesla might have been attempting to prevent overcharging of the battery and not applying enough regenerative braking. That's a problem that would be more likely to show up in lab testing than in real life because the lab would probably start all its tests with a full charge.
If you ONLY advertise in Elle, yes. If you also place a similar amount of advertising in GQ, no.
Talking about advertising a Rolex is a false equivalence. Demographic targeting of goods is legal pretty much across the board, though refusing to sell goods to people in a protected category is not. Demographic advertising of JOBS is another matter. There are laws prohibiting job ads that exclude a protected category, with the exception of jobs where it's an actual job qualification. (Thus you can advertise for actors of a specific race, exclude men from a job as a lingerie fitter or a women's locker room attendant, etc.)
The legal question that will be answered by the cases about Facebook filtering is whether using a medium that allows selective targeting of job advertising to keep people in a protected category from seeing your job ads is legally equivalent to placing ads that exclude that category. It's a bit different than the situation with Elle magazine; a man could pick up that magazine and look for job listings, but he couldn't do the equivalent thing with Facebook except by setting up a second account that appeared to belong to a woman. That's a bit trickier than it seems; you can choose your age and gender when you set up the account, but they will also use their Big Data to try to figure out those things (and others, like political orientation and whether you have children) and target your advertising accordingly.
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It's called Domino's. And Little Caesar's.
I had hoped that the rise of the internet would lead to the death of sales tax, the most regressive form of taxation, and force a shift to income and property taxes instead. Sadly it has not played out that way, and governments have moved to protect their sales tax revenue rather than shift to fairer forms of taxation.
Income, sales, and property taxes are the three major basic forms of taxation; nearly everything else is a special case of one of them. (A tariff, for example, is a sales tax that is only levied on imported goods.) Sometimes the names disguise the true nature of the tax. (Massachusetts has what the state calls an excise tax on car ownership, but it's based on the value of the car so it's really a property tax. A true excise tax is a tax that is levied at the time of manufacture rather than the time of sale, and usually has the same net effect as a sales tax.) There are less common taxes like residency tax and poll tax that rarely constitute a significant part of government income; those usually have non-financial goals as their primary motive. (Poll tax, for example, is about keeping the poor from voting.) Governments can also raise money with fees for using government services and fines for minor violations, which can effectively be another form of tax if most people pay them.
It's easier to just plan to use a switch for the outlying locations that need more connections. Switches are cheap and readily available. And unless your foresight is perfect and you know exactly WHERE in the room you're going to put that entertainment center, you'll end up using a switch anyway. (Do you really want a bunch of whips going to those jacks that are ten feet away? You get a much neater installation by running one whip to a switch and using short cables within the gear rack.)
If you're retrofitting an older house rather than building new, the case for not pulling too many cables is even stronger. Fishing cables through the wall is challenging, and the size of the cable bundle you pull matters. Getting eight Cat6 cables to a location is harder than getting two there.
If I were going to put eight network jacks in a room, I would instead put a pair on each wall. The idea is to make sure that you can easily get Ethernet to the place where you want it. It's the same reason that you put electrical outlets on each wall; so you don't have to run extension cords across the room.
They chose to use the SAMD21 as the main processor for Arduino compatibility - it's the same processor that is used in the Arduino M0. But it doesn't support CAN, so they put in a cheap STM processor to act as a dedicated CAN controller. It's rather like how the Arduino Uno uses a second ATMega chip as a USB controller - because it's cheaper than the FTDI chip that they used in previous Arduino products.
That is exactly what Intel did for a number of years. Does anybody else think it's suspicious that 2017 is the first time in many years that Intel brought us a significant increase in the performance of desktop and laptop processor by increasing their core counts? (Desktop and H-series laptops went from four cores to six; U-series laptops went from two cores to four.) Has Intel actually been able to do this for a while, but held back until Ryzen forced their hand?
It doesn't make sense for the user, though. Why have two accounts that do the same thing? Doing business with both PayPal and Venmo means two accounts, two passwords to remember, two sets of financial records...
AMD didn't launch a new GPU this year because they didn't have enough to offer to make it worth the effort. They could have done a 12nm die shrink of Vega, much as they did for Ryzen, but it wouldn't have gotten them to a fully competitive position against NVidia's current chips, let alone the GTX 1100 series when it appears. They have that machine learning Vega thing on 7nm, but the yield at their fab partner isn't yet high enough to go into mass production with that process. So it makes sense for AMD to wait until 2019, when both Navi and the 7nm process will be ready for prime time.
Console partners like Sony and Microsoft are a significant part of AMD's plans, and it was console sales that kept the company afloat during the dark days between the failure of Bulldozer and the success of Ryzen. But AMD has given up on the computer market just yet, and Ryzen 2 and Navi could put them in a very good place in 2019. That year will be the first time in MANY years, if ever, that AMD will be competing with Intel without having to overcome a disadvantage in process technology, and they'll be on a level playing field with NVidia as it appears that both Navi and future NVidia GPUs will be on 7nm from TSMC.
Not having any updates for over a year also means that Apple has missed out on the most interesting year of CPU upgrades in a long time. On the Intel side, we got the first mainstream six core CPUs for desktops, the first six core H-series (power laptop) processors, and the first quad core U-series (mainstream laptop) processors. These all meant performance improvements of 30 to 40%, a much bigger jump than we have seen for a while. (Nothing new in the Y series yet; that's probably waiting for the 10nm Cannon Lake.) And AMD debuted Ryzen and Mobile Ryzen, offering a viable alternative to many of Intel's processors.
So over on the Windows side, we have a bunch of new systems that are quite a bit faster at multi-threaded workloads than the ones you could get a year ago. But Mac users are totally missing out. (The iMac Pro uses a Xeon workstation and server processor, and that line did not get the same dramatic performance jump that the consumer processors did; higher core counts have been available there for a while.)
There is only one way that the German auto industry will ever get a break from diesel scandals, and that is to stop making them. VW at least appears to be on the path to doing just that; the company is aggressively pushing forward with EV development and sales.
You're set for now... until somebody else in the household wants to watch a different 4K program at the same time.
Not any time soon, because bandwidth demands keep going up. People's connections are catching up with 4K now, but 8K is already on the way and that means another factor of four increase in bandwidth. After that I'm sure we'll see 12K or 16K There may not be much point to those resolutions for normal movie watching, but they will be important for VR and for applications like video walls where people might walk up to the display to see more detail of a small part of a scene.
One problem with phones with USB-C charging jacks and no headphone jack is that you can't connect a charger and headphones at the same time. There are adapters that are supposed to let you do that, but they don't work on all phones.
Things get even worse than this article mentions when you look at laptops with USB-C ports. (I'm sure much of this would also apply to desktop systems with USB-C; they do exist now but I haven't yet encountered one.) Some ports let you charge the laptop. Some are also Thunderbolt 3 ports and will support accessories like external monitors and GPUs. Some support charging a connected device while the laptop is in sleep or hibernate. But they all look the same so it's difficult to know what capabilities a USB-C port has. If the laptop has more than one USB-C port they aren't always identical; each port may have a different mix of capabilities.
Unless you are buying far enough in advance to have a ticket mailed to you, the phone is not a solution. The internet solves the problem because you can print the ticket at home, or if you have a smartphone you can get an e-ticket that you display on the phone.
Having some way to buy tickets from an agent is important - not only for people with no internet access, but also for the unbanked population. But there is no reason to require that Amtrak employ those agents. In some states, an agency agreement for somebody else to sell the tickets might be a suitable solution, rather than requiring an Amtrak employee who will be idle most of the time. (Some Amtrak locations are served by only two trains per day, one in each direction.) The agent could be a local transit agency, a bus company that also serves the station, or a store located near the train station.
In other words, require that the problem (people can't buy tickets) be solved. Don't require a specific solution (Amtrak employees). Requiring the employees is pork barrel politics.
It was the middle part of a trilogy. Those never have clear resolutions; it's in the nature of a trilogy.
If they hadn't wasted a bunch of money by firing the original directors and essentially making the movie twice, it would have been a $150 million movie instead of a $250 million dollar movie. At that cost level it would have merely been a break-even disappointment rather than a big money loser.
Monster Cable's original product actually made sense. But that was a long time ago, and the company has gone down a bunch of rabbit holes since then.
Back in the day, people mostly connected speakers with zip cord (the thin flexible wire that is used for lamps and other small electrical devices) or something similar, and it was usually 18 gauge wire so it would be small and flexible. That worked fine with tube amplifiers, which were high voltage and low current devices and usually operated with speakers designed for relatively high impedance levels like 16 ohms.
But then solid state amplifiers came along. Suddenly it was possible and not prohibitively expensive to make amps that produced hundreds of watts of audio. Transistors are also low voltage and high current devices by nature (even more so back then) and the designs were usually done without audio transformers, both to reduce costs and to eliminate signal degradation from the transformers. At the same time, speakers were being designed to operate at lower impedances, meaning less voltage and more current.
What did that mean for speaker cables? That the resistance loss in the cable was no longer negligible; it meant lost power. And because the impedance of most speakers is not a constant (it's higher at some frequencies and lower at others) the resistance loss was not constant with frequency, meaning that the resistance of the cable would alter the sound of the speaker. Along came Monster Cable with a much heavier gauge speaker cable to address the issue. (If memory serves their original product was 12 gauge.) They also made it with many small strands: not to minimize skin effect as later advertising for fancy cables claimed (that's an issue at RF but negligible at audio frequencies), but simply to let them make a larger cable that was still flexible and easy to connect. Because it used more copper and more strands, that Monster Cable was more expensive to make than zip cord, but by modern cable standards it was inexpensive.
The fly in the ointment is that there was nothing particularly novel or patentable there. Once Monster Cable caught on, other manufacturers started to make thick flexible speaker cable. So the company had to make increasingly esoteric designs and make grandiose claims about them to retain its market.
Similarly, their original low-level cables made sense. Their Interlink cables focused on two things: better build quality (the cheap available cables mostly weren't very well made and were easy to damage) and improved shielding. The latter helps to keep electrical noise out of the components that are being connected and thus improves sound. Again those things were easy to copy, so they moved into more and more elaborate designs, with fanciful descriptions to justify them.
Monster Cable is the best known of the high end cable companies and is often used as a symbol for the excesses of that type of product, but they are far from the worst offender in the snake oil business. And they still make more ordinary (and reasonably priced) cables for the car audio and professional home installer businesses.
It's not really about a tenth of a speaker, but about an audio channel with a tenth of the bandwidth because it is restricted to low frequencies. Because of that frequency restriction, the .1 channel can be handled at a lower sample rate, or with fewer bits in a perceptual encoding system, without an audible change. That bass speaker is likely to be LARGER than the other ones because it needs to be to reproduce those low frequencies.
Human hearing isn't very good at figuring out the location of low frequency sounds (below 80 Hz or thereabouts), so using a smaller number of speakers to reproduce them is a good engineering tradeoff. It allows the use of smaller speakers for the non-bass channels, making it easier to place them in a room; the smaller speakers are also less expensive, making it possible for the buyer to purchase more of them at a given price.
Similarly, a 7.2 system has seven full range speakers and two bass-only speakers; that allows side-to-side directional cues for low frequencies and full two dimensional spacial placement (it doesn't normally involve height speakers) of higher frequency ones. Sound systems with even more channels now exist that allow three dimensional placement of sound, again usually with a limited number of bass speakers.
The performing name of Cantinflas was originally a nonsense name that he adopted to keep his family from knowing that he was performing. The verb is derived from his name.
It doesn't matter. Facebook will figure out your age, gender, and interests in other ways: who your friends are, what you are interested in, which ads you click on, what other sites you visit.
Apple's App Store originally had severe restrictions on the ability of apps to generate and execute code, essentially making it impossible to write an app for native software development. (The notable exception would be an app that created Javascript code that runs in Safari.) They have been loosened somewhat since then, but iOS is still a rather restrictive environment for that purpose. There is, of course, no restriction on the ability to use it as a web device to write code that runs on OTHER computers.
Android has never had any restrictions on apps that create and execute code. Even if the Play Store were to introduce them, you could sideload development apps on most devices.
The small size of the screen on a phone and the lack of a real keyboard are much more severe problems, and they are inherent to the form factor. I don't expect to ever see a lot of software developers writing code on their phones. Larger tablets are another matter; those could be used effectively for coding.
Sadly for those of us in North America, all the Blackview phones are nearly useless here. They don't support the LTE bands used here. They're worth a look if you live in Europe or Asia and you don't travel frequently to the US or Canada.
The reason that The Safety Dance was on heavy rotation on MuchMusic was probably the Canadian Content (CanCon) laws. Broadcasters in Canada, including cable channels, are required to broadcast a certain percentage of programming that was made in Canada and/or features Canadian performers.
Music has the clearest definition of Canadian content. It is scored on four things: Music (written by a Canadian), Artist (performed by Canadians), Performance (recorded or performed live in Canada), and Lyrics (written by a Canadian). To count as CanCon at least two of those four things must be true. The Safety Dance passes with flying colors, scoring all four points. The music video, however, was filmed in England.
References:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Safety_Dance
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythm_of_Youth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_Without_Hats
It's more likely that the braking issue was a bug that was introduced by an attempt to fix some other problem. For example, Tesla might have been attempting to prevent overcharging of the battery and not applying enough regenerative braking. That's a problem that would be more likely to show up in lab testing than in real life because the lab would probably start all its tests with a full charge.
If you ONLY advertise in Elle, yes. If you also place a similar amount of advertising in GQ, no.
Talking about advertising a Rolex is a false equivalence. Demographic targeting of goods is legal pretty much across the board, though refusing to sell goods to people in a protected category is not. Demographic advertising of JOBS is another matter. There are laws prohibiting job ads that exclude a protected category, with the exception of jobs where it's an actual job qualification. (Thus you can advertise for actors of a specific race, exclude men from a job as a lingerie fitter or a women's locker room attendant, etc.)
The legal question that will be answered by the cases about Facebook filtering is whether using a medium that allows selective targeting of job advertising to keep people in a protected category from seeing your job ads is legally equivalent to placing ads that exclude that category. It's a bit different than the situation with Elle magazine; a man could pick up that magazine and look for job listings, but he couldn't do the equivalent thing with Facebook except by setting up a second account that appeared to belong to a woman. That's a bit trickier than it seems; you can choose your age and gender when you set up the account, but they will also use their Big Data to try to figure out those things (and others, like political orientation and whether you have children) and target your advertising accordingly.