“Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf. Worse than Carter.” -Donald Trump
I guess all the country's problems are fixed now since Trump is playing so much golf. Way to go Donald!
Wow, we're saving $70,000 over 4 years. Why would you even say something if it's such a low figure? Seriously, it's 0.000000018% of the budget. That's like a guy that makes $100k trumpeting the fact that he saved $0.0018. Less than 2/10s of a penny. I'm sure nobody expected anything different from this president, when your whole reason for getting elected is so your family and friends can loot the treasury "openness" isn't high on your agenda.
[citation needed]. Where are you getting your data? The linked article doesn't give data like that and Uber is still private so there aren't SEC 10-k filings for them. From an accounting standpoint, Uber doesn't pay drivers, they give them the portion of the fare that the driver earned (at least in the US). Drivers are not Uber employees, they are independent contractors that have a relationship with Uber for booking and payments in the driver's taxi business. Uber doesn't recognize the portion of fares it gives to drivers as revenue, so how can you say that that money is the bulk of the loss when it wasn't revenue to begin with? You can't lose something you never had. That's like saying my bank incurred a $100 loss because I made a withdrawal.
If you have a source of data that is not public then it's not worth discussing here. If you do have a public source of data on where Uber is spending its money, I would love to see it. How much are they spending on W-2 employee salaries? Marketing? Lobbying? R&D? Inquiring minds want to know...
If solar panel lifetime is shorter than 15-20 years like you say, why do solar manufacturers offer warrantees for 25 years or more? For example, here is LG's warranty page for their solar panels, they guarantee that their panels will produce at least 80.2% of their rated output at the end of the 25th year. Panel lifetimes are certainly better than the "few years" that you claim.
I have been on a municipal fiber network for over 10 years and it's been great. A high bandwidth symmetrical connection with a wide choice in ISPs. Previously I had cable internet through Comcast and the network stability, level of service and price have been like night and day. Internet is pretty crucial to living in modern society, it should be treated as a utility and a basic level of service provided to each home by the government. TV, phone and internet service providers still compete for the customer's business, they just do it on a level playing field.
Also, pay attention to "My primary beef with Trump is that HE HAS NO EXPERIENCE." which didn't factor into anything when Obama was elected. If it wasn't for double standards, some people would have none.
Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996, 1998 and 2002. He was elected to the US senate in 2004. His BA was in political science with a specialty in international relations. He graduated from Harvard Law magna cum laude and was the president of the Harvard Law review. He taught constitutional law for 12 years and worked as a civil rights attorney.
Yes, Obama had less experience than many presidents but compare that to Trump. No previous elected experience, no law experience, no previous interest in politics. The only item on his resume that even remotely resembles qualification to be president is a BS in economics from 49 years ago. What was that you were saying about double standards?
Tesla does not use rare earth metals in our battery or motor. Typically, rare earth metals apply to DC motors, which use magnets. One of the reasons we use an AC induction motor is it does not require magnets, which often contain the rare earth metals.
GM's If investors had *any* sense, GM's P/E ratio would be 16
Maybe they are worried that GM will undergo another "restructuring" like the last one, where the current stock of the company is rendered worthless and the executives sell the assets of the company to a "new" company. The execs made plenty of money but the stockholders lost everything and the taxpayers lost around $12 billion.
That would be the "SBA.gov". The statement is, "90% of all businesses fail in the first year because the public does not know the product exists. 90% of all businesses fail in the second year because the market does not know the business exists." My conclusion is that, "sure a person has a great product, but without getting the word out, well that person does not make any sales. No sales? Collapse occurs.
Can you please be more specific? Those phrases don't appear to exist on SBA.gov. You put them in quotes so obviously they are direct quotes from the site. The searches I tried were:
No results found for "90% of all businesses" site:sba.gov. No results found for "fail in the first year" site:sba.gov. No results found for "fail in the second year" site:sba.gov.
I did find this page that says "Shocking but true statistics: 20 percent of all small businesses survive the first year, 30 percent survive the second year, and half survive the first five years" but those numbers doesn't match up to your original statement (or your modified statement) and it only applies to small businesses, not all businesses like your original statement.
Except it's not involuntary and it's not servitude. If you voluntarily accept a loan then I don't think it's unreasonable to expect you to pay it back. There's no slavery involved. If you don't want to pay it back, then don't take the loan.
I agree with you that student loans should be dischargable in bankruptcy but exactly what part of the constitution makes them "unconstitutional"? Where is the right to declare bankruptcy enshrined in the constitution? Instead of expecting the judiciary to fix this problem, you should be putting pressure on the source of the problem, the legislative and executive branches of government.
Do you know what the word "literally" means? How big was this golden platter that the self-entitled arseholes were handed? Where did all the gold come from? If the platter was large enough to hold the world it must have contained a lot of gold. Perhaps we could sell this platter and fund a program to forgive student loans. Do you know where the platter is currently stored?
So if the agreed upon rent is lower than the asking price (i.e., all of the bids are below asking price), does Rentberry pay the user 25% of the difference each month? And by the way, is "the user" the landlord or the renter?
If only you could have read to the last sentence of the summary instead of just reading to the second-to-last:
"Whoever received the better deal pays the fee -- every month."
If all the bids are below the asking price the renter pays rentberry 25% of the difference every month.
I don't see this doing well -- sure the landlords want it because it benefits them, but personally I would never use it. If an rental I was interested in was listed through this service I simply would look elsewhere and I think a lot of other people would as well. Landlords using this service would get fewer prospects and would either have to stop using the service or pressure the company to change the mechanics.
In my area it's the exact opposite. They use tax dollars to build something, mismanage it horribly, then sell it for pennies on the dollar to their buddies because it is "failing". It's a great way for politicians to transfer public money to their friends.
Not to mention that one of the biggest line items for defense, the VA, is not under the defense budget. This is another $130 billion/year that is defense related but not in the defense budget. Paying for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq doesn't get put into the general defense budget either, so add a few more trillion.
Ummm, have you seen an airport with train tracks through it?
Ummm, yes? Any city with a mass transit system will generally have that system go to the airport(s) for the city. This includes subways and light rail, both of which run on "train tracks".
The Libertarian Party in the United States certainly supports corporations. Quoting from their platform:
2.7 Marketplace Freedom
Libertarians support free markets. We defend the right of individuals to form corporations, cooperatives and other types of entities based on voluntary association.
Well, the US caused a meltdown of the world's economy in 2008 so even if you live somewhere else there's still reason to fear Trump. America has wide reach both militarily and financially and they love to show it.
That's funny, because I have a demotivational poster at my desk that says "Teamwork - Ensuring that your hard work can always be ruined by some else's incompetence". It's not a joke, it happens every day. Like the "meetings" demotivational poster says: "None of us are as dumb as all of us".
Notice they didn't give actual subscriber numbers. A 20% increase would be significant if they went from 1 million to 1.2 million customers but if they went from 10 to 12 it's not as impressive. Seeing as how Microsoft seems to fumble everything (internet, Zune, Windows phone, Xbox [at least initially]) that isn't their core business (Windows and Office) I don't think Salesforce should be too scared yet.
The IRS considers bitcoin an asset, if you are selling bitcoin or bartering it for goods you are subject to capital gains tax on it, just like any other appreciating asset. It's got nothing to do with the Federal Reserve. Bitcoin rising in value isn't inflation of a currency, it's the market attempting to price the future value of an asset, same as with a stock.
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“Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf. Worse than Carter.”
-Donald Trump
I guess all the country's problems are fixed now since Trump is playing so much golf. Way to go Donald!
Wow, we're saving $70,000 over 4 years. Why would you even say something if it's such a low figure? Seriously, it's 0.000000018% of the budget. That's like a guy that makes $100k trumpeting the fact that he saved $0.0018. Less than 2/10s of a penny. I'm sure nobody expected anything different from this president, when your whole reason for getting elected is so your family and friends can loot the treasury "openness" isn't high on your agenda.
[citation needed]. Where are you getting your data? The linked article doesn't give data like that and Uber is still private so there aren't SEC 10-k filings for them. From an accounting standpoint, Uber doesn't pay drivers, they give them the portion of the fare that the driver earned (at least in the US). Drivers are not Uber employees, they are independent contractors that have a relationship with Uber for booking and payments in the driver's taxi business. Uber doesn't recognize the portion of fares it gives to drivers as revenue, so how can you say that that money is the bulk of the loss when it wasn't revenue to begin with? You can't lose something you never had. That's like saying my bank incurred a $100 loss because I made a withdrawal.
If you have a source of data that is not public then it's not worth discussing here. If you do have a public source of data on where Uber is spending its money, I would love to see it. How much are they spending on W-2 employee salaries? Marketing? Lobbying? R&D? Inquiring minds want to know...
If solar panel lifetime is shorter than 15-20 years like you say, why do solar manufacturers offer warrantees for 25 years or more? For example, here is LG's warranty page for their solar panels, they guarantee that their panels will produce at least 80.2% of their rated output at the end of the 25th year. Panel lifetimes are certainly better than the "few years" that you claim.
I have been on a municipal fiber network for over 10 years and it's been great. A high bandwidth symmetrical connection with a wide choice in ISPs. Previously I had cable internet through Comcast and the network stability, level of service and price have been like night and day. Internet is pretty crucial to living in modern society, it should be treated as a utility and a basic level of service provided to each home by the government. TV, phone and internet service providers still compete for the customer's business, they just do it on a level playing field.
Also, pay attention to "My primary beef with Trump is that HE HAS NO EXPERIENCE." which didn't factor into anything when Obama was elected. If it wasn't for double standards, some people would have none.
Obama was elected to the Illinois state senate in 1996, 1998 and 2002. He was elected to the US senate in 2004. His BA was in political science with a specialty in international relations. He graduated from Harvard Law magna cum laude and was the president of the Harvard Law review. He taught constitutional law for 12 years and worked as a civil rights attorney.
Yes, Obama had less experience than many presidents but compare that to Trump. No previous elected experience, no law experience, no previous interest in politics. The only item on his resume that even remotely resembles qualification to be president is a BS in economics from 49 years ago. What was that you were saying about double standards?
What the fuck do rare-earth metals have to do with Tesla? Their current model (Model S) uses no rare-earth metals at all.
From https://forums.tesla.com/forum...
GM's If investors had *any* sense, GM's P/E ratio would be 16
Maybe they are worried that GM will undergo another "restructuring" like the last one, where the current stock of the company is rendered worthless and the executives sell the assets of the company to a "new" company. The execs made plenty of money but the stockholders lost everything and the taxpayers lost around $12 billion.
That would be the "SBA.gov". The statement is, "90% of all businesses fail in the first year because the public does not know the product exists. 90% of all businesses fail in the second year because the market does not know the business exists." My conclusion is that, "sure a person has a great product, but without getting the word out, well that person does not make any sales. No sales? Collapse occurs.
Can you please be more specific? Those phrases don't appear to exist on SBA.gov. You put them in quotes so obviously they are direct quotes from the site. The searches I tried were:
I did find this page that says "Shocking but true statistics: 20 percent of all small businesses survive the first year, 30 percent survive the second year, and half survive the first five years" but those numbers doesn't match up to your original statement (or your modified statement) and it only applies to small businesses, not all businesses like your original statement.
99% of all businesses fail in the first 24 months
[citation needed]
Funnyer then alot of the populous.
Except it's not involuntary and it's not servitude. If you voluntarily accept a loan then I don't think it's unreasonable to expect you to pay it back. There's no slavery involved. If you don't want to pay it back, then don't take the loan.
I agree with you that student loans should be dischargable in bankruptcy but exactly what part of the constitution makes them "unconstitutional"? Where is the right to declare bankruptcy enshrined in the constitution? Instead of expecting the judiciary to fix this problem, you should be putting pressure on the source of the problem, the legislative and executive branches of government.
Do you know what the word "literally" means? How big was this golden platter that the self-entitled arseholes were handed? Where did all the gold come from? If the platter was large enough to hold the world it must have contained a lot of gold. Perhaps we could sell this platter and fund a program to forgive student loans. Do you know where the platter is currently stored?
So if the agreed upon rent is lower than the asking price (i.e., all of the bids are below asking price), does Rentberry pay the user 25% of the difference each month? And by the way, is "the user" the landlord or the renter?
If only you could have read to the last sentence of the summary instead of just reading to the second-to-last:
"Whoever received the better deal pays the fee -- every month."
If all the bids are below the asking price the renter pays rentberry 25% of the difference every month.
I don't see this doing well -- sure the landlords want it because it benefits them, but personally I would never use it. If an rental I was interested in was listed through this service I simply would look elsewhere and I think a lot of other people would as well. Landlords using this service would get fewer prospects and would either have to stop using the service or pressure the company to change the mechanics.
In my area it's the exact opposite. They use tax dollars to build something, mismanage it horribly, then sell it for pennies on the dollar to their buddies because it is "failing". It's a great way for politicians to transfer public money to their friends.
Not to mention that one of the biggest line items for defense, the VA, is not under the defense budget. This is another $130 billion/year that is defense related but not in the defense budget. Paying for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq doesn't get put into the general defense budget either, so add a few more trillion.
Ummm, have you seen an airport with train tracks through it?
Ummm, yes? Any city with a mass transit system will generally have that system go to the airport(s) for the city. This includes subways and light rail, both of which run on "train tracks".
It's the same in the US, the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act says that companies cannot invalidate your warranty for using 3rd party parts.
The Libertarian Party in the United States certainly supports corporations. Quoting from their platform:
2.7 Marketplace Freedom
Libertarians support free markets. We defend the right of individuals to form corporations, cooperatives and other types of entities based on voluntary association.
Well, the US caused a meltdown of the world's economy in 2008 so even if you live somewhere else there's still reason to fear Trump. America has wide reach both militarily and financially and they love to show it.
"Personal" isn't a useful modifier for identification -- how many time are you asked for your group identification number?
Every time I go to a new doctor or dentist.
That's funny, because I have a demotivational poster at my desk that says "Teamwork - Ensuring that your hard work can always be ruined by some else's incompetence". It's not a joke, it happens every day. Like the "meetings" demotivational poster says: "None of us are as dumb as all of us".
Notice they didn't give actual subscriber numbers. A 20% increase would be significant if they went from 1 million to 1.2 million customers but if they went from 10 to 12 it's not as impressive. Seeing as how Microsoft seems to fumble everything (internet, Zune, Windows phone, Xbox [at least initially]) that isn't their core business (Windows and Office) I don't think Salesforce should be too scared yet.
The IRS considers bitcoin an asset, if you are selling bitcoin or bartering it for goods you are subject to capital gains tax on it, just like any other appreciating asset. It's got nothing to do with the Federal Reserve. Bitcoin rising in value isn't inflation of a currency, it's the market attempting to price the future value of an asset, same as with a stock.